Peter Fredrick Strawson (born 1919) was regarded as one of the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century. He was especially active in the movement known as ordinary language philosophy. Sir Peter Fredrick Strawson was born November 23, 1919. He...

P. F. Strawson is one of the best-known and most influential British philosophers of the post-World War II era. Although he concedes that there are several legitimate conceptions of philosophy, his strong conviction is that the analytic approach is the...

. 1919–. British philosopher born in London and working in Oxford, who has been a leading member of the later phase of ‘linguistic philosophy’. He has both earned the strictures of RUSSELL for his attention to ‘ordinary...

Strawson, Peter Frederick(1919 2000, edited by Peter S. Fosi. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale, 2002. Urmson, J. O. Review of Individuals. Mind (1961). Van Straaten, Zak, ed. Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P. F. Strawson. Oxford:...

Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was...

By L.E. HAHN, ed. Chicago and LaSalle: Open Court, 1998. Pp. xviii, 428. This is the twenty-sixth volume in the Library of Living Philosophers, a series founded by Paul A. Schilpp in 1939 and edited by him until 1981, when the editorship...