Bøger af P.F. Strawson

P. F. Strawson has been a major and influential spokesman for ordinary language philosophy throughout the late twentieth century, studying the relationship between common language and the language of formal logic. This is a reissue of his collection of early essays with a new introduction by Professor Strawson.

The problem of universals has been at the centre of ancient, medieval, Western, and Indian metaphysics. This anthology evinces analytic philosophy's healthy re-engagement with this perennial problem. It compares insights from Western thought with work in analytic Indian philosophy on such issues.

P.F. Strawson has been a major and influential spokesman for ordinary language philosophy throughout the late twentieth century, studying the relationship between common language and the language of formal logic. This reissue of his collection of early essays, Logico-Linguistic Papers, is published with a brand new introduction by Professor Strawson but, apart from minor corrections to the text, these classic essays remain original and intact. Logico-Linguistic Papers contains Strawson''s major essay, ''On Referring'', in which he disputed Bertrand Russell''s theory of definite descriptions, distinguishing between referring to an entity and asserting its existence. The book contains twelve essays in all, grouped by subject matter. The first five are concerned with the topic of singular reference and predication and the last three are all responses to J.L. Austin''s treatment of the topic of truth. Strawson disputes the correspondence theory of truth, maintaining that facts are what statements (when true) state. The remaining papers deal with meaning, speech acts, logical truth and Chomsky''s views on syntax.

Presents a discussion of scepticism, which defines as questioning the adequacy of our grounds for holding various beliefs. This title draws deftly on Hume and Wittgenstein to argue that we must distinguish between 'hard', scientific naturalism; or 'soft', humanistic naturalism.

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. Beginning with "Freedom and Resentment", this collection is a testament to the astonishing range of Strawson's thought as he discusses free will, ethics and morality, logic, the mind-body problem and aesthetics.

Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology.

Strawson has supplied a new introduction for this reissue of his modern classic, originally published in 1974. This text explores two conceptions of subject and predicate; one of which lies at the core of standard logic and another more closely relates to surface forms of natural language.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Covering the work of the British philosopher of logic and metaphysician, P.F. Strawson, this text examines his ideas on metaphysics, the mind-body problem and possibility of objective knowledge. Critical and descriptive essays from leading philosophers are provided as well as Strawson's replies.