Philosopher
P. F. Strawson
Overview
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (; 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.
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."
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Philosophers who discussed P. F. Strawson
- Gilbert Ryle
- Immanuel Kant
- John Searle
- David Kaplan (philosopher)
- Jürgen Habermas
- Thomas Nagel
- A. C. Grayling
- John McDowell
- Anthony Quinton
- Ernest Gellner
- Philosophical Investigations
- Paul Grice
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Keith Donnellan
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Galen Strawson
- Colin McGinn
- David Hume
- Gareth Evans (philosopher)
- Kwasi Wiredu
- Peter Achinstein
- John Cook Wilson
- Martin Hollis (philosopher)
- Paul Snowdon
Ideas P. F. Strawson discusses
- Gilbert Ryle
- Moral agency
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Linguistic turn
- Metaphysics
- The Guardian
- Richard Rorty
- Particular
- René Descartes
- British Academy
- Bimal Krishna Matilal
- Aristotle
- World War II
- Paul Grice
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Moral responsibility
- Wilfrid Sellars
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Times
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Mind (journal)
Place in the tradition
Part of A. C. Grayling.