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twentysixth volume in the highly acclaimed Library of

Living Philosophers series is devoted to the work of British philosopher of logic and metaphysician, P.
F. Strawson. Following the Library of Living Philosophers series format, the volume contains an intellectual autobiography, twenty critical and descriptive essays by leading philosophers from around the world, Strawson's replies to the essays, and a bibliography of Strawson's works.


Born in, Strawson was a leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, He is the author of the early and extremely influential paper "On Referring" in which he criticized Russell's theory of definite descriptions.
His most influential book, Individuals, helped to raise the status of metaphysics as a philosophical enterprise, Themes first addressed in this book continued to be of concern to him in his later work, including the possibility of objective knowledge, the subjectpredicate distinction, the ontological status of persons, and the problem of individuation.


Contributors to the book include: Ruth Garrett Millikan, Susan Haack, E, M. Adams, Panayot Butchvarov, Richard Behling, John McDowell, Simon Blackburn, Tadeusz Szubka, David Frederick Haight, Joseph S, Wu, Andrew G. Black, David Pears, Robert Boyd, Hilary Putnam, Paul F, Snowdon, Arindam Chakrabarti, Wenceslao J, Gonzalez, Ernest Sosa, ChungM. Tse, John R. Searle, P. F. Strawson. Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA was an English philosopher, He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford Magdalen College fromto, Before that he was appointed as a college lecturer at University College, Oxford inand became a tutorial fellow the following year until.
On his retirement in, he returned to the college and continued working there until shortly before his passing, .