P.F. Strawson and his philosophical legacy / edited by Sybren Heyndels, Audun Bengtson and Benjamin De Mesel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heyndels, Sybren, editor.

Bengtson, Audun, editor.

De Mesel, Benjamin, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strawson, P. F.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

P.F. Strawson and his Philosophical Legacy aims to bring out the continuing relevance of Sir Peter Frederick Strawson's work for current philosophical debates. It is the first book since Strawson's death to cover the full range of his philosophy, with chapters on his contributions to the philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and philosophical methodology.

Contents:

Cover

P. F. Strawson and his Philosophical Legacy

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction

Overview of Contributions

Bibliography

Primary Literature

Books by Strawson

Selected Articles by Strawson

Videos

Secondary Literature

1: Strawson on False Presupposition and the Assertive Enterprise

1. Introduction

2. Moving Beyond 'On Referring'

3. The Assertive Enterprise and Presumptions of Knowledge and Ignorance

4. Information Structure and the Contrast between Given and New Information

5. Radical Reference Failure, Topic-Hood, and Aboutness

6. Degrees of Identificatory Force

7. Connections to Contemporary Discussions of Discourse Structure

8. Conclusions

References

2: Meaning and Speech Acts

2. Acts of Telling and Their Centrality

3. Strawson's Account of Telling

4. McDowell's Account of Telling

5. A Better Account of Telling

6. The Role of Truth-Conditions in Telling

7. Knowledge of Truth-Conditions: The Fourfold Inferential Disposition

8. The Homeric Struggle Resolved

9. Conclusion

3: Strawson's Basic Particulars

2. Chapter 1 of Individuals

3. Our Conceptual Scheme

4. Some Aspects of the Broader Context

5. The Identification of Particulars (pp. 15-17)

6. The Spatio-Temporal Framework (pp. 17-30)

7. Reidentification

8. Material Objects as Basic

4: Strawson on Other Minds

1. Strawson's Contribution

2. The Conceptual Problem

3. The Sceptical Problem

4. The Explanatory Problem

5: P. F. Strawson and the 'Pseudo-Material Shadows'

2. 'Objective Particulars'

3. Descriptive Metaphysics and Thinking of 'Basic' Particulars

4. Individuals: Part I, Chapters 1 and 2.

5. Individuals: Part II, Chapter 6

6. The Subject-Predicate Distinction and the Particular-Universal Distinction

7. The Fundamental Level of Thought

8. Feature-Universals, Feature-Concepts, and Feature-Placing Sentences

9. Ontology for the Fundamental Level of Thought

10. Ordinary Basic Particulars Are a Simplifying Device

6: Concepts and Experience in Bounds of Sense and Beyond

2. Descriptive Metaphysics and Connective Analysis

3. Descriptive Metaphysics and Transcendental Philosophy

4. Transcendental Arguments

5. 'Concept' and 'Experience': Preliminary Clarifications

6. Self-Conscious Experience and Objective Particulars

7. Particulars, Concepts, and Judgements

8. Recognition and the Self-Ascribability of Experience

9. Animals and Conceptualism About Experience

10. Second-Class Perception?!

11. The Myth of Spontaneity

12. An Analytic Take on Transcendental Arguments

7: Strawson's Metacritique

2. Kant (I)

3. Strawson (I)

4. Moore

5. Strawson (II)

6. Kant (II)

8: Seeing (More than) What Meets the Eye: A Critical Engagement with P. F. Strawson

2. 'Seeing More' Is Seeing What Meets the Eye

3. A Genuine Account of Perceptual Experience

4. An 'Unforced' Account of Perceptual Experience

5. A Response to Scepticism

9: To Reply, or Not to Reply, That Is the Question: Descriptive Metaphysics and the Sceptical Challenge

2. The Parting of the Ways: Modest and Ambitious Transcendental Arguments

3. Descriptive Metaphysics and Modest Transcendental Strategies

4. Descriptive Metaphysics and Naturalized Epistemology.

5. On a Walk with the Ambitious Transcendental Strategist, the Modest Transcendental Strategist, the Humean Naturalist, and the Descriptive Metaphysician

10: P. F. Strawson and Connective Analysis

2. A Description of Connective Analysis

3. Examples of Connective Analysis

4. Reductive Analysis, Connective Analysis, and Modest Conceptual Analysis

5. Is Grice's Analysis of Various Kinds of Meaning Reductive?

6. Modest Conceptual Analysis and Connective Analysis

7. Conclusion

11: Responsibility After 'Morality': Strawson's Naturalism and Williams's Genealogy

2. Responsibility, Scepticism, and Strawson's Naturalism

3. Responsibility, 'Morality', and Williams's Genealogy

4. The Basic Opposition

5. The Case for Reconciliation

6. The Limits of Reconciliation

7. The Limits of Strawson's Naturalism

12: Navigating 'Freedom and Resentment'

2. Strawson's Strategy in 'Freedom and Resentment'

3. Choice Points and Different Interpretations

4. The Thesis of Determinism

5. Conclusion

13: Between Exemption and Excuse: Exploring the Developmental Dimensions of Responsible Agency

2. Three Signature Strawsonian Theses

3. The Dispositionalist Approach to Responsible Agency

3.1 The Demarcation Problem

3.2 The Epistemic Problem

3.3 The 'Hard' Problem of Deserved Blame

3.4 The Dudley Do-Right Problem

4. The Skills-Based Approach to Responsible Agency

4.1 Solving the Dudley Do-Right Problem

4.2 Solving the Hard Problem of Deserved Blame

4.3 Alleviating the Epistemic Problem

4.4 Revisiting the Demarcation Problem

5. Navigating the Grey Areas of Responsible Agency

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Heyndels, Sybren P. F. Strawson and His Philosophical Legacy

ISBN:

0-19-194928-0

0-19-267435-8

0-19-267436-6