P. F. Strawson and his Philosophical Legacy

by Heyndels, Sybren; Bengtson, Audun; De Mesel, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9780192858474
• ISBN10: 0192858475
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192674364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-03-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Sybren Heyndels, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven,Audun Bengtson, Advisor, Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC),Benjamin De Mesel, Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven

Sybren Heyndels is a postdoctoral researcher (Research Foundation Flanders) at KU Leuven. In 2018, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. From 2020 until 2022, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher (Irish Research Council) at University College Dublin. He publishes on the history of twentieth century philosophy, philosophy of language, and moral philosophy.

Audun Bengtson is an advisor at the Norwegian Defence University College, Oslo. He completed his PhD in philosophy at KU Leuven in 2020. In his PhD he developed a Wittgensteinian interpretation of Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment'. He has published in Philosophical Investigations and Advances in Experimental Philosophy. He currently works on the ethics of human enhancements in the military.

Benjamin De Mesel is Assistant Professor in RIPPLE (Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven), Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. He is the author of The Later Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy (Springer, 2018) and co-editor, with Oskari Kuusela, of Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2019). He has published widely on Wittgenstein and moral philosophy, and on P. F. Strawson's views on freedom and moral responsibility. His work has appeared in Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, European Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and The Journal of Ethics.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Sybren Heyndels, Audun Bengtson, and Benjamin De Mesel
1. Strawson on False Presupposition and the Assertive Enterprise, Anne Bezuidenhout
2. Meaning and Speech Acts, Ian Rumfitt
3. Strawson's Basic Particulars, Paul Snowdon
4. Strawson on Other Minds, Quassim Cassam
5. P. F. Strawson and the 'Pseudo-Material Shadows', Michelle Montague
6. Concepts and Experience in Bounds of Sense and Beyond, Hans-Johann Glock
7. Strawson and Metacritique, Anil Gomes
8. Seeing (More than) What Meets the Eye: A Critical Engagement with P. F. Strawson, Lilian Alweiss
9. To Reply, or Not To Reply, That Is the Question: Descriptive Metaphysics and the Sceptical Challenge, Giuseppina D'Oro
10. P. F. Strawson and Connective Analysis, A. P. Martinich
11. Responsibility After 'Morality'. Strawson's Naturalism and Williams's Genealogy, Paul Russell
12. Navigating 'Freedom and Resentment', Lucy Allais
13. From Excuse to Exemption: Exploring the Developmental Dimensions of Responsible Agency, Victoria McGeer