P. F. Strawson 1919 – 2006
P. F. Strawson (1919 – 2006) was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson was a British analytic philosopher and a long-standing fellow of University College, Oxford. His paper On Referring criticized Russell's theory of descriptions, and his Individuals produced a descriptive metaphysics that took persons and material bodies as the basic particulars of our conceptual scheme. The Bounds of Sense reread Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a sustained inquiry into the conditions of the possibility of any coherent experience of an objective world. His essay Freedom and Resentment recovered the moral significance of the reactive attitudes against consequentialist accounts of responsibility.
Key facts
- Nationality
- British
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Analytic Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to P. F. Strawson:
“Persons are the basic particulars of our conceptual scheme.”
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Attributed to P. F. Strawson:
“Reactive attitudes are the foundation of moral life.”
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Attributed to P. F. Strawson:
“Descriptive metaphysics is content to describe the actual structure of our thought about the world.”
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Attributed to P. F. Strawson:
“It is no use looking for a transcendental deduction in the form of a knock-down argument.”
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Attributed to P. F. Strawson:
“Moral responsibility is rooted in our actual practices of reaction and demand.”
P. F. Strawson by topic
Frequently asked about P. F. Strawson
- When did P. F. Strawson live?
- P. F. Strawson was born in 1919 and died in 2006.
- Where was P. F. Strawson from?
- P. F. Strawson was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is P. F. Strawson associated with?
- P. F. Strawson was associated with Analytic Philosophy.
- What was P. F. Strawson known for?
- Sir Peter Frederick Strawson was a British analytic philosopher and a long-standing fellow of University College, Oxford.
- How many quotes are attributed to P. F. Strawson?
- There are 12 attributed quotations from P. F. Strawson in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.