This volume offers a collective study of the work of P. F. Strawson (1919-2006) and an exploration of its relevance for current philosophical debates. It is the first book since Strawson's death to cover the full range of his philosophy, with chapters by world-leading experts about his lasting contributions to the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and philosophical methodology. It aims to achieve a balance between exegesis of Strawson, critical engagement, and consideration of the reception and continuing value of his work. It explores the intellectual relations between Strawson and some of his predecessors and contemporaries and it will be an indispensable source for scholars and students of twentieth-century philosophy and its influence in the twenty-first.
Sybren Heyndels, Audun Bengtson, and Benjamin De Mesel: Introduction 1: Anne Bezuidenhout: Strawson on False Presupposition and the Assertive Enterprise 2: Ian Rumfitt: Meaning and Speech Acts 3: Paul Snowdon: Strawson's Basic Particulars 4: Quassim Cassam: Strawson on Other Minds 5: Michelle Montague: P. F. Strawson and the 'Pseudo-Material Shadows' 6: Hans-Johann Glock: Concepts and Experience in Bounds of Sense and Beyond 7: Anil Gomes: Strawson and Metacritique 8: Lilian Alweiss: Seeing (More than) What Meets the Eye: A Critical Engagement with P. F. Strawson 9: Giuseppina D'Oro: To Reply, or Not To Reply, That Is the Question: Descriptive Metaphysics and the Sceptical Challenge 10: A. P. Martinich: P. F. Strawson and Connective Analysis 11: Paul Russell: Responsibility After 'Morality'. Strawson's Naturalism and Williams's Genealogy 12: Lucy Allais: Navigating 'Freedom and Resentment' 13: Victoria McGeer: From Excuse to Exemption: Exploring the Developmental Dimensions of Responsible Agency
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.
