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Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics

Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics

Strawson, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Classics

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1032914955
ISBN13: 9781032914954
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 17 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Sir Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970.

Individuals, his most important book, is a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it presents Strawson's now famous argument for descriptive metaphysics and his repudiation of revisionary metaphysics. Rather than setting out to replace our overall view of the world, in the manner of the great 'revisionary' philosophers of the past, Strawson sets himself the seemingly (but not actually) more modest task of simply describing it. The aim is nothing less than to lay bare the most basic structure of our thought--the most general features of the way in which we think about particular things. A landmark book in the philosophical world and above all analytical philosophy, it remains of vital importance today.

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