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This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Michelle Montague. Also included is Strawson's essay 'Individuals'. Published 30 years after the book itself and until now not widely available, it sees Strawson reflecting on some of the key arguments presented in his book of the same name.

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Sir Peter Strawson (1919?2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970.

Individuals, his most important book, is a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it presents Strawson?s now famous argument for descriptive metaphysics and his repudiation of revisionary metaphysics. Rather than setting out to replace our overall view of the world, in the manner of the great 'revisionary' philosophers of the past, Strawson sets himself the seemingly (but not actually) more modest task of simply describing it. The aim is nothing less than to lay bare the most basic structure of our thought?the most general features of the way in which we think about particular things. A landmark book in the philosophical world and above all analytical philosophy, it remains of vital importance today.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a substantial new Foreword by Michelle Montague, setting out some of Strawson's key themes and arguments. Also included is Strawson's essay 'Individuals'. Published thirty-five years after the book itself and until now not widely available, it sees Strawson summarizing and reflecting on some of the key arguments presented in his book of the same name.

'This is a book of quite unusual interest and importance, which is likely greatly to influence philosophical discussion on the same and related topics for some time to come... It is a book to read and re-read by anyone with an interest in philosophy.' - Mind

'Encountering philosophy as an undergraduate in 1959 was a wonderful and astonishing experience. That was the year in which two philosophical works appeared whose impact on the discipline was out of all proportion to their modest size and unpretentious prose. One was Stuart Hampshire's Thought and Action; the other, by Peter Strawson, was Individuals. Its demure sub-title, "An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics", gives no hint of the revolution it wrought.' - Alan Ryan, The Independent

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Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Michelle Montague  Preface  Introduction  Part 1: Particulars  1. Bodies  2. Sounds  3. Persons  4. Monads  Part 2: Logical Subjects  5. Subject and Predicate (1): Two Criteria  6. Subject and Predicate (2): Logical Subjects and Particular Objects  7. Language without Particulars  8. Logical Subjects and Existence  Conclusion.  Appendix: Individuals  Index