Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics
London, England: Routledge (1959)
Abstract
Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology. Peter Strawson's most famous work, it sets out to describe nothing less than the basic subject matter of our thought. It contains Strawson's now famous argument for descriptive metaphysics and his repudiation of revisionary metaphysics, in which reality is something beyond the world of appearances. Throughout, Individuals advances some highly influential and controversial ideas, such as 'non-solipsistic consciousness' and the concept of a person a 'primitive concept'Reprint years
1963, 1964, 1990, 2002, 2015, 2016
Call number
BD111.S78127 2016
ISBN(s)
9780415051859 9780203221303 9781138170896 0415051851 1138170895 041668310X 9789570846027
My notes
Similar books and articles
Descriptive versus Revisionary Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem.R. L. Phillips - 1967 - Philosophy 42 (160):105 - 118.
Strawsons Descriptive Metaphysics-Its Scope and Limits.Fredrik Stjernberg - 2009 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (4):529-541.
Descriptive vs Revisionary Social Epistemology: The Former as Seen by the Latter.Steve Fuller - 2004 - Episteme 1 (1):23-34.
El concepto de persona. Una relectura de la propuesta de P. F. Strawson.María Teresa Muñoz Sánchez - 2008 - Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 32 (2):73-87.
"Descriptive" and "Revisionary" Metaphysics.Derek A. McDougall - 1973 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 34 (2):209-223.
Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics.Peter Frederick Strawson - 1959 - London, England: Routledge.
Strawson's descriptive metaphysics.Hans Johann Glock - 2012 - In Glock, Hans Johann . Strawson's Descriptive Metaphysics. In: Haaparanta, Leila; Koskinnen, Heikki J. Categories of Being. Essays on Metaphysics and Logic. New York: Oxford University Press, 391-419.
Strawson and Kant on Being 'I'.Jan Kuneš - 2009 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (4):493-509.
PF Strawson and Stephen Davies on the Ontology of Art.Anders Pettersson - 2009 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (4):615-631.
'Persons' and Persons.Paul F. Snowdon - 2009 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (4):449-476.
Strawson on Philosophy – Three Episodes.Paul Francis Snowdon - 2008 - South African Journal of Philosophy 27 (3):167-178.
Analytics
Added to PP
2015-12-06
Downloads
228 (#55,147)
6 months
44 (#30,642)
2015-12-06
Downloads
228 (#55,147)
6 months
44 (#30,642)
Historical graph of downloads
Citations of this work
On what grounds what.Jonathan Schaffer - 2009 - In David Manley, David J. Chalmers & Ryan Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Oxford University Press. pp. 347-383.
The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering (Open Access).Matthieu Queloz - 2021 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology.John A. Dupre & Daniel J. Nicholson - 2018 - In Daniel J. Nicholson & John A. Dupre (eds.), Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology.
Individuals: an essay in revisionary metaphysics.Shamik Dasgupta - 2009 - Philosophical Studies 145 (1):35-67.