Peter Frederick Strawson
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
November 23, 1919
Died
February 13, 2006
Genre
Influences
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The Bounds of Sense: An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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published
1966
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23 editions
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Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics
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published
1959
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31 editions
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Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays
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published
1974
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12 editions
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Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy
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published
1985
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9 editions
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Scepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties
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published
1984
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19 editions
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Introduction to Logical Theory
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published
2011
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18 editions
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Logico-Linguistic Papers
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published
2004
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7 editions
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Entity and Identity: And Other Essays
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published
1997
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9 editions
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Individuals, etc (University Paperbacks. no. UP 81.)
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Universals, Concepts and Qualities
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published
2006
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4 editions
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“To ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future; and to forgive is to accept the repudiation and to forswear the resentment.”
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“[A] man who contradicts himself may have succeeded in exercising his vocal chords. But from the point of view of imparting information, of communicating facts (or falsehoods) it is as if he had never opened his mouth. He utters words, but does not say anything.”
― Introduction to Logical Theory
― Introduction to Logical Theory
“If someone treads on my hand accidentally, while trying to help me, the pain may be no less acute than if he treads on it in contemptuous disregard of my existence or with a malevolent wish to injure me. But I shall generally feel in the second case a kind and degree of resentment that I shall not feel in the first. If someone's actions help me to some benefit I desire, then I am benefited in any case; but if he intended them so to benefit me because of his general goodwill towards me, I shall reasonably feel a gratitude which I should not feel at all if the benefit was an accidental consequence unintended or even regretted by him, of some plan of action with a different aim.”
― Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays
― Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays
































