Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics

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Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics is a seminal 1959 work of analytic philosophy that develops a systematic account of our conceptual scheme for thinking about objects, persons, and their identity over time.

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instanceOf non-fiction book
philosophy book
work of analytic philosophy
academicDiscipline philosophy
academicSubdiscipline metaphysics
philosophy of language
author P. F. Strawson
P. F. Strawson
surface form: Peter Frederick Strawson
centralThesis descriptive metaphysics aims to describe the actual structure of our thought about the world
our conceptual scheme is structured around basic particulars such as material bodies and persons
contrastsWith revisionary metaphysics
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
describes our conceptual scheme for thinking about identity over time
our conceptual scheme for thinking about objects
our conceptual scheme for thinking about persons
firstPublishedIn Oxford
genre analytic philosophy
metaphysics
hasForm monograph
hasReception widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century analytic metaphysics
influenced contemporary metaphysics
personal identity debates
philosophy of language
influencedBy Aristotle
Bertrand Russell
Gottlob Frege
Immanuel Kant
mainTopic conceptual scheme
descriptive metaphysics
identity over time
ontology
particulars
persons
reference and individuation
notableConcept basic particulars
descriptive metaphysics vs revisionary metaphysics distinction
person as a basic particular
originalLanguage English
part Part One: Particulars
Part Two: Persons
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
publicationYear 1959
publisher Methuen
structure two-part division
targetAudience advanced students of philosophy
professional philosophers

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P. F. Strawson notableWork Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics
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Strawsonian tradition in metaphysics associatedWithWork Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics
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