STRAWSON, P(eter) F(rederick) (1919- ), British philosopher, associated with the movement known as ordinary language philosophy. Strawson was born in London and educated at Christ College, University of Oxford. He returned to Oxford to teach and then in 1968 was named Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy. Strawson's first book, Introduction to Logical Theory (1952), contains his analysis of the relationship between formal logic and the logical features of ordinary language. In his work Individuals (1959; 2d ed. 1965), Strawson makes persons and material objects the building blocks of all knowledge.
Analytic Philosophy