STRAWSON (Peter Frederick).
Individuals. An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics.
Strawson’s second and most famous book, a modern philosophical classic.
‘Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology. 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’ (publisher’s blurb to the 2002 edition).
From the library of the American-born Oxford philosopher James P. Griffin (1933-2019), with his neat ownership stamp to the front free endpaper.
