Sir Peter Strawson - Comment - Times Online

Sir Peter Strawson - Comment - Times Online: "However, his next book, Individuals (1959), a study of substance concepts, is one of the masterpieces of analytic philosophy. Building on insights from Aristotle, Strawson was able to discern, behind the surface variegation of natural languages, certain comparatively (and explicably) firm and permanent features of our natural “conceptual scheme”. He was then able to describe what he had discerned in prose whose rhythms respond perfectly to the camber of his argument, and whose balanced periods attain a Mozartian grace."

Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Sir Peter Strawson

Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Sir Peter Strawson: "Oxford was the world capital of philosophy between 1950 and 1970, and American academics flocked there, rather than the traffic going the other way. That golden age had no greater philosopher than Sir Peter Strawson, who has died aged 86."

P.F. Strawson 1919-2006

Telegraph | News: "Sir Peter Strawson, who died on Monday aged 86, was a leading light amongst the philosophers concentrated at Oxford during the 1950s and 1960s;"

One former pupil, Bryan Magee, said: "No sooner would I have completed an assertion to him, however small or light, than I would find myself backed up against a wall and the bullets would be smacking about my head."

'The great divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad | Prospect Magazine February 2006 issue 119

Cover story: 'The great divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad | Prospect Magazine February 2006 issue 119: "Cinema, literature and other aspects of western culture are increasingly open to Asian influence. Not so western philosophy, which remains almost entirely sealed off from eastern traditions. Why? Institutionalised parochialism on the part of western philosophers and a loss of nerve among Asian thinkers"

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Frankfurt on Bullshit

Philosopher, 65, Lectures Not About 'What Am I?' but 'What Is I?' - New York Times

Philosopher, 65, Lectures Not About 'What Am I?' but 'What Is I?' - New York Times: "Mr. Kripke looks the way a philosopher ought to look: pink-faced, white-bearded, rumpled, squinty. He carries his books and papers in a plastic shopping bag from Filene's Basement."