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Peter Frederick Strawson

Peter Frederick StrawsonPeter Frederick Strawson (1919- ).

Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher, a graduate of Oxford, was born in 1919.

An influential spokesman for so-called ordinary language philosophy, he began teaching at Oxford in 1947 and from 1968 to 1987 was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics.

In an early article, “On Referring” (Mind, 1950), he disputed Bertrand Russell’s theory of definite descriptions, drawing a distinction between referring to an entity and asserting its existence.

He also disputed, on linguistic grounds, the correspondence theory of truth, maintaining that a “fact” is not something that corresponds to a true statement but something stated; facts are not something to which statements refer, rather “facts are what statements (when true) state.”

In his first book, Introduction to Logical Theory (1952), Strawson studied the relationship between common language and the language of formal logic.

Later his concern shifted to what he calls descriptive metaphysics, a description of the actual structure of our thought about the world. His development of and work in this area revived interest in metaphysics as a respectable philosophic enterprise.

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Major Works of Peter Frederick Strawson

– Introduction to Logical Theory (1952)
– Individuals (1965)
– The Bounds of Sense (1966)
– Logico-Linguistic Papers (1971)
– Freedom and Restraint (1974)

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    Analyse Et Metaphysique (Problemes & Controverses) (French Edition)

    Analyse Et Metaphysique (Problemes & Controverses) (French Edition)

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    Analyse und Metaphysik. Eine Einführung in die Philosophie.

    Analyse und Metaphysik. Eine Einführung in die Philosophie.

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    Einzelding und logisches Subjekt.

    Einzelding und logisches Subjekt.

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    Les Individus

    Les Individus

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    Imi no genkai

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