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...(2 volumes, 1936). Finally, Kantian methods can be discerned today in the later work of the prominent Oxford “ordinary language” philosopher, Peter F. Strawson, entitled Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (1959). Kantianism became known in the United States toward 1840 primarily through the New England transcendentalist and poet Ralph Waldo...
...These assumptions, however, have met with serious criticism. P.F. Strawson, a British philosopher whose thought centres on the analysis of the structure of ordinary language, especially in his Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (1959), not only attacked Russell’s account of proper names but argued that experience demands a framework of basic particulars that are not...
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