Individuals - An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Michelle Montague. Also included is Strawson's essay 'Individuals'. Published 30 years after the book itself and until now not widely available, it sees Strawson reflecting on some of the key arguments presented in his book of the same name.

List of contents

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Michelle Montague Preface Introduction Part 1: Particulars 1. Bodies 2. Sounds 3. Persons 4. Monads Part 2: Logical Subjects 5. Subject and Predicate (1): Two Criteria 6. Subject and Predicate (2): Logical Subjects and Particular Objects 7. Language without Particulars 8. Logical Subjects and Existence Conclusion. Appendix: Individuals Index

About the author

P. F. Strawson was born in London in 1919. After serving as a captain in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers during World War Two he was appointed a fellow of University College Oxford in 1948. He first gained philosophical fame at the age of 29 in 1950, when he criticised Bertrand Russell's renowned Theory of Descriptions for failing to do justice to the richness of ordinary language. He was Waynflete Professor at Oxford from 1968-1987 and was knighted in 1977. He died in 2006.

Summary

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Michelle Montague. Also included is Strawson's essay 'Individuals'. Published 30 years after the book itself and until now not widely available, it sees Strawson reflecting on some of the key arguments presented in his book of the same name.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Strawson, Strawson Peter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032914954
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3291495-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge