Individuals PF Strawson Book
by PF Strawson

Number of Pages: 262 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: Sep 10, 2002
ASIN: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBF9IM/?tag=connectings01-20" target="_blank" title="Amazon ASIN">B000FBF9IM

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UnknownJan 2010

Published in 1959, this was a ground-breaking book of enormous importance to philosophers of my generation. After the second world war, we were not much into metaphysics. But this was a new descriptive metaphysics (to use Strawson's own phrase), not windbag speculation, but drawing general conclusions from how things are. It opened the way of a solution to the problem of personal identity and the relation between mind and body by insisting that persons, being both mental and physical entities, were among the basic particulars in the world, not to be atomised or further divided up.

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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'