University of Oxford University of Cambridge ENS (audit student) Paris I (audit student)
Parent
P. F. Strawson (father)
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Analytic philosophy Direct realism[1]
Main interests
Philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of action
Notable ideas
Panpsychism Realistic physicalism
Website
Galen Strawson's personal site
Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche.[2] He has been a consultant editor at The Times Literary Supplement for many years, and a regular book reviewer for The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Independent, the Financial Times and The Guardian. He is the son of philosopher P. F. Strawson. He holds a chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, and taught for many years before that at the University of Reading, City University of New York, and Oxford University.
^Galen Strawson, "Real Direct Realism", a lecture recorded 2014 at Marc Sanders Foundation, Vimeo.
^"UT College of Liberal Arts". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including...
Leibniz, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, and GalenStrawson. In the 19th century, panpsychism was the default philosophy of mind...
Strawson is a surname. People with the surname include: GalenStrawson (born 1952), English philosopher and literary critic John Strawson, British writer...
experience and is not a form of any a priori knowledge (Macleod 2016) GalenStrawson has stated that an a priori argument is one in which "you can see that...
his 2003 book Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her. The work was described by GalenStrawson in The Guardian as "mischievously revelatory" and labelled by Wilson...
Direct realism has been defended by Hilary Putnam, John McDowell, GalenStrawson, and John R. Searle. However, epistemological dualism has come under...
physicalism is false. GalenStrawson's realistic physicalism or realistic monism entails panpsychism – or at least micropsychism. Strawson argues that "many—perhaps...
experience and is not a form of any a priori knowledge (Macleod 2016) GalenStrawson has stated that an a priori argument is one in which "you can see that...
power, or ability, to prefer or choose". The contemporary philosopher GalenStrawson agrees with Locke that the truth or falsity of determinism is irrelevant...
children's author Rory Stewart (born 1973), politician, author and diplomat GalenStrawson (born 1952), philosopher and literary critic Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020)...
logic – and is thus independent of sensory experience. In other words, as GalenStrawson once wrote, "you can see that it is true just lying on your couch. You...
a review article of Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by GalenStrawson, Oxford, 448 pp, ISBN 0-19-825006-1, lrb.co.uk 2021, Thomas Nagel, "Types...
Davidson Douglas Hofstadter Edmund Husserl Frank Jackson Fred Dretske GalenStrawson George Berkeley George Henry Lewes Georges Rey Gottfried Leibniz Immanuel...
Time: Virtue". BBC. 28 February 2002. — BBC Radio 4 discussion with GalenStrawson, Miranda Fricker, and Roger Crisp "What are Virtues?". Virtues For Life...
Showalter Iain Sinclair Quentin Skinner Susan Sontag Amia Srinivasan GalenStrawson Ernest Sackville Turner Colm Tóibín Marina Warner Bernard Williams James...
Sommers, Tamler (March 1, 2003). "An Interview with GalenStrawson". The Believer. No. 1. GalenStrawson has stated that an a priori argument is one in which...
J. C. Smart David Sosa Baruch Spinoza Timothy Sprigge Stephen Stich GalenStrawson Kenneth Allen Taylor Evan Thompson Ernst Tugendhat Alan Turing Mark...
the philosopher GalenStrawson who wrote an article in the New York Review of Books titled "The Consciousness Deniers". In it, Strawson describes illusionism...
of the BPhil include: Cora Diamond, Daniel Dennett, George Boolos, GalenStrawson, G. A. Cohen, J. J. C. Smart, Patricia Churchland, Peter Singer, R....
experience, a scenario that appears contradictory. On the other hand, GalenStrawson suggests that the solution to this conundrum might lie in yet unresolved...
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