This volume presents 22 uncollected philosophical essays by Sir Peter Strawson, one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. Theessays (two previously unpublished) are drawn from seven decades of work, andspan all the central areas of philosophy, along with metaphilosophical reflections and intellectual autobiography. INDICE: Preface; 1: Ethical Intuitionism; 2: (with H. P. Grice): In Defence of a Dogma; 3: Construction and Analysis; 4: Proper Names; 5: The Post-Linguistic Thaw; 6: Analysis, Science, and Metaphysics; 7: Bennett on Kant's Analytic; 8: Does Knowledge have Foundations?; 9: Knowledge and Truth; 10: Scruton and Wright on Anti-Realism; 11: Perception and its Objects; 12: Liberty and Necessity; 13: Sensibility, Understanding, and the Doctrine of Synthesis; 14: TwoConceptions of Philosophy; 15: Review of Paul Grice, Studies in the Way of Words; 16: Knowing from Words; 17: What have we learned from Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?; 18: A Category of Particulars; 19: Paul Grice; 20: Why Philosophy?; 21: Intellectual Autobiography; 22: A Bit of Intellectual Autobiography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958729-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés