Galen Strawson

Galen Strawson
Born1952 (age 71–72)
England
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Oxford
University of Cambridge
ENS (audit student)
Paris I (audit student)
Parent
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Direct realism[1]
Main interests
Philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of action
Notable ideas
Panpsychism
Realistic physicalism
WebsiteGalen Strawson's personal site

Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche.[2] He has been a consultant editor at The Times Literary Supplement for many years, and a regular book reviewer for The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Independent, the Financial Times and The Guardian. He is the son of philosopher P. F. Strawson. He holds a chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, and taught for many years before that at the University of Reading, City University of New York, and Oxford University.

  1. ^ Galen Strawson, "Real Direct Realism", a lecture recorded 2014 at Marc Sanders Foundation, Vimeo.
  2. ^ "UT College of Liberal Arts". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2015.

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