Strawson s Descriptive Metaphysics Its Scope and Limits.
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The intent of Peter Strawson’s Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics, in accord with the linguistic philosophy that characterized the philosophy being conducted at Oxford when.
Individuals (1959) P. F. Strawson (1959) Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. London: Methuen. There is a massive central core of human thinking which has no history — or none recorded in histories of thought; there are categories and concepts which, in their most fundamental character, change not at all. Obviously these are not the specialities of the most refined thinking.
Chapter 2 Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics: Towards a basic ontology (pp. 51-92) The central question raised by Strawson in Part I of Individuals concerns the ways in which reference to individuals and particulars is obtained in the practices of ordinary language.
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Sir Peter Strawson, in full Peter Frederick Strawson, (born November 23, 1919, London, England—died February 13, 2006, Oxford, Oxfordshire), British philosopher who was a leading member of the ordinary language school of analytic philosophy during the 1950s and ’60s. His work was instrumental in reviving interest in metaphysics within Anglo-American (analytic) philosophy in the mid-20th.
Individuals: an Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. By P. F. STRAWSON. Methuen, 1959. Pp. 255. 25s. THIS is a book of quite unusual interest and importance, which is likely greatly to influence philosophical discussion on the same and related topics for some time to come. Whether the main contentions are successfully established it would be rash at this stage to pronounce, because of the wide.