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Entity and identity : and other essays

Title
Entity and identity : and other essays / P.F. Strawson.
Author
Strawson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1919-
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.

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Description
vi, 285 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Gathered in this volume are selected essays by P.F. Strawson from the 1970s to the 1990s, in two areas of philosophy to which he has most notably contributed. The first twelve pieces concern the philosophy of language, a broad heading under which many controversial philosophical issues can be fruitfully approached. Questions such as the following are discussed: Do general properties exist as well as the particular things that have them? What is involved in reference to particular things? What exactly is formal logic as we now understand it? What do we mean when we say that something may happen or might have happened? What do we mean when we speak of the meaning of what we say? The volume is completed by four studies in Kantian metaphysics: these develop and strengthen Strawson's influential view of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and bring out the implications of this view for current metaphysical debates.
Subject
  • Philosophy
  • Language and languages > Philosophy
  • Philosophy
  • philosophy
  • Philosophie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Analytische filosofie
  • Metafysica
  • Philosophy, English > 20th century
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Entity and Identity -- 2. Universals -- 3. Positions for Quantifiers -- 4. Concepts and Properties -- 5. Direct Singular Reference: Intended Reference and Actual Reference -- 6. Belief, Reference, and Quantification -- 7. Reference and Its Roots -- 8. Logical Form and Logical Constants -- 9. 'If' and '[actual symbol not reproducible]' -- 10. May Bes and Might have Beens -- 11. Austin and 'Locutionary Meaning' -- 12. Meaning and Context -- 13. Kant's New Foundations of Metaphysics -- 14. The Problem of Realism and the A Priori -- 15. Kant's Paralogisms: Self-Consciousness and the 'Outside Observer' -- 16. Kant on Substance.
ISBN
  • 019823645X
  • 9780198236450
LCCN
96038463
OCLC
  • ocm59665826
  • 59665826
  • SCSB-2116760
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library