Sir Peter Strawson | |
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| Born | Peter Frederick Strawson 23 November 1919 Ealing, London, England |
| Died | 13 February 2006 (aged 86) London, England |
| Burial place | Wolvercote Cemetery |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford |
| Children | 4, including Galen |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Notable students | Gareth Evans |
Main interests | Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind |
Notable ideas | Ordinary language philosophy Personal reactive attitudes[1] The distinction between sortal and characterising universals[2] The distinction between particular individuals (such as historical events, material objects and persons) and non-particular individuals (such as qualities, properties, numbers, species)[3] The "descriptive metaphysics" and "revisionary metaphysics" distinction[4] |
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Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (/ˈstrɔːsən/; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1968 to 1987. He had previously held the positions of college lecturer and tutorial fellow at University College, Oxford, a college he returned to upon his retirement in 1987, and which provided him with rooms until his death.[5]
Paul Snowdon and Anil Gomes, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, comment that Strawson "exerted a considerable influence on philosophy, both during his lifetime and, indeed, since his death."[6]
- ^ Personal reactive attitudes are reactions we display when we are hurt by the actions of an agent (see Strawson, P. F. (2008), Freedom and resentment and other essays, Routledge, p. 12).
- ^ N. Milkov, A Hundred Years of English Philosophy, Springer, 2013, p. 201.
- ^ Clifford A. Brown, Peter Strawson, Routledge, 2015, p. 51.
- ^ Peter Frederick Strawson (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- ^ Snowdon, Paul (19 May 2011). "Strawson, Sir Peter Frederick (1919–2006), philosopher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97063. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2024. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Peter Frederick Strawson". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2022.