P. F. Strawson

Sir Peter Strawson FBA
Born	Peter Frederick Strawson 23 November 1919 Ealing, London, England
Died	13 February 2006(2006-02-13) (aged 86) London, England
Burial place	Wolvercote Cemetery
Alma mater	St John's College, Oxford
Children	4, including Galen
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Notable students	Gareth Evans
Main interests	Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas	Ordinary language philosophy Personal reactive attitudes[1] The distinction between sortal and characterising universals[2] The distinction between particular individuals (such as historical events, material objects and persons) and non-particular individuals (such as qualities, properties, numbers, species)[3] The "descriptive metaphysics" and "revisionary metaphysics" distinction[4]

Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (/ˈstrɔːsən/; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1968 to 1987. He had previously held the positions of college lecturer and tutorial fellow at University College, Oxford, a college he returned to upon his retirement in 1987, and which provided him with rooms until his death.^[5]

Paul Snowdon and Anil Gomes, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, comment that Strawson "exerted a considerable influence on philosophy, both during his lifetime and, indeed, since his death."^[6]