Entity and Identity And Other Essays

by Strawson, P. F.

• ISBN13: 9780198250159
• ISBN10: 0198250150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-06
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

P. F. Strawson here presents a selection of his shorter writings from the 1970s to the 1990s in the two areas of philosophy to which he has contributed most notably: philosophy of language and Kantian studies. A new introduction offers an overview of the essays, their topics, and their interrelations. This collection represents some of the most fascinating work of one of the foremost philosophers of the late twentieth century.

Author Biography

Sir Peter Strawson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the University of Oxford, and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen, St John's, and University Colleges.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Entity and Identity	p. 21
Universals	p. 52
Positions for Quantifiers	p. 64
Concepts and Properties or Predication and Copulation	p. 85
Direct Singular Reference: Intended Reference and Actual Reference	p. 92
Belief Reference, and Quantification	p. 100
Reference and Its Roots	p. 123
Logical Form and Logical Constants	p. 142
References	p. 161
'If' and '&U2283'	p. 162
May Bes and Might Have Beens	p. 179
Austin and 'Locutionary Meaning'	p. 191
Meaning and Context	p. 216
Kant's New Foundations of Metaphysics	p. 232
The Problem of Realism and the a Priori	p. 244
Kant's Paralogisms: Self-Consciousness and the 'Outside Observer'	p. 252
Kant on Substance	p. 268
Bibliography	p. 281
Index	p. 283
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