When1: 1950
When2: 1996
Who: Peter F. Strawson [Strawson, Peter F.]
What: philosopher
Where: England
works\ On Referring [1950: in Mind]; Introduction to Logical Theory [1952]; Individuals [1959 and 1963]; Bounds of Sense [1966]; Logico-Linguistic Papers [1971]; Freedom and Resentment [1974]; Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar [1974]; Skepticism and Naturalism [1985]; Mental Reality [1996]
Detail: He lived 1919 to ? and associate with Quine.
Epistemology
All particulars are individuals. Individuals can be particular spatial objects, with identity. Individuals can be non-particulars, like properties, numbers, and statements. Statements are non-particular and have context. Sentences and descriptions refer to particular objects, such as statements in which "The" and "That" can interchange. Concepts can depend on or refer to other concepts.
Mind
Experience is a mental-state series {pearl view, Strawson}. Self is new each time. Introspection shows that consciousness alternates with unconsciousness. There is no personality or agent. Neural processes have mental as well as non-mental properties. Experiences depend on persons or selves {no-ownership theory, Strawson}.
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