Böcker av P.F. 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.