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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. Peter Strawson's most famous work, it sets out to describe nothing less than the basic subject matter of our thought.

,Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006), usually cited as P. Strawson, was an English philosopher. He was the at the from 1968 to 1987. Before that, he was appointed as a college lecturer at, in 1947, and became a tutorial fellow the following year, until 1968. On his retirement in 1987, he returned to the college and continued working there until shortly before his death.

His portrait was painted by the artists and.When he died, the obituary in noted that, 'Oxford was the world capital of philosophy between 1950 and 1970, and American academics flocked there, rather than the traffic going the other way. That golden age had no greater philosopher than Sir Peter Strawson.' Contents.Early years Strawson was born in, west London, and brought up in, north London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was educated at, followed by, where he read.Philosophical work Strawson first became well known with his article 'On Referring' (1950), a criticism of 's (see also ) that Russell explained in the famous ' article (1905).In philosophical methodology, there are (at least) two important and interrelated features of Strawson's work that are worthy of note. The first is the project of a 'descriptive' metaphysics, and the second is his notion of a shared conceptual scheme, composed of concepts operated in everyday life. In his book Individuals (1959), Strawson attempts to give a description of various concepts that form an interconnected web, representing (part of) our common, shared, human conceptual scheme.

In particular, he examines our conceptions of basic, and how they are variously brought under general spatio-temporal concepts. What makes this a metaphysical project is that it exhibits, in fine detail, the structural features of our thought about the world, and thus precisely delimits how we, humans, think about reality.Strawson was made a Fellow of the in 1960 and Foreign Honorary Member of the in 1971. He was president of the from 1969 to 1970. He was, in 1977, for services to philosophy.Personal life After serving as a captain in the during, Strawson married Ann Martin in 1945.

They had four children, including the philosopher. He lived in Oxford all his adult life and died in hospital on 13 February 2006 after a short illness. Strawson was elder brother to.Partial bibliography Books. London:, 1952. Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. London: Methuen, 1959. German translation by F.

Scholz (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1972). French translation by A.

Shalom and P. Drong (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1973).

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Italian translation by E. Bencivenga (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1978). Japanese translation by N. Nakamura (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1978). Polish translation by B. Chwedenczuk (Warsaw: Wydawniczy Pax, 1980).

Spanish translation by A. Suarez and L. Villanueva (Madrid: Taurus, 1989).: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. London: Methuen, 1966. Spanish translation by C. Luis Andre (Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1975). German translation by E.

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Freedom and Resentment and other Essays. London: Methuen, 1974. Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar. London: Methuen, 1974. Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy. Oxford:, 1992. Entity and Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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