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By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and Resentment collects some of Strawson's most important work and is an ideal introduction to his thinking on such topics as the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics. Beginning with the title essay Freedom and Resentment , this invaluable collection is testament to the astonishing range of Strawson's thought as he discusses free will, ethics and morality, logic, the mind-body problem and aesthetics. The book is perhaps best-known for its three interrelated chapters on perception and the imagination, subjects now at the very forefront of philosophical research. This reissue includes a substantial new foreword by Paul Snowdon and a fascinating intellectual autobiography by Strawson. Foreword / By Paul Snowdon -- Intellectual Autobiography / By P.f. Strawson -- Freedom And Resentment -- Social Morality And Individual Ideal -- Imagination And Perception -- Causation In Perception -- Perception And Identification -- Categories -- Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations -- Self, Mind, And Body -- Aesthetic Appraisal And Works Of Art -- Is Existence Never A Predicate? -- On Understanding The Structure Of One's Language. P.f. Strawson. Originally Published: London : Methuen ; New York : Distributed By Harper & Row, 1974. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Humanities BOOK COVER 1 TITLE 4 COPYRIGHT 5 CONTENTS 6 FOREWORD 7 INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY TAKEN FROM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF P. F. STRAWSON 17 PREFACE 41 1 FREEDOM AND RESENTMENT 44 2 SOCIAL MORALITY AND INDIVIDUAL IDEAL 72 3 IMAGINATION AND PERCEPTION 93 4 CAUSATION IN PERCEPTION 116 5 PERCEPTION AND IDENTIFICATION 137 6 CATEGORIES 162 7 WITTGENSTEIN’S ‘PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS’ 190 8 SELF, MIND AND BODY 229 9 AESTHETIC APPRAISAL AND WORKS OF ART 239 10 IS EXISTENCE NEVER A PREDICATE? 251 11 ON UNDERSTANDING THE STRUCTURE OF ONE’S LANGUAGE 261 INDEX 272 By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. Beginning with "Freedom and Resentment", this collection is a testament to the astonishing range of Strawson's thought as he discusses free will, ethics and morality, logic, the mind-body problem and aesthetics By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of Oxford's most distinguished scholars. This collection demonstrates the originality of his thinking on such topics as philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics A collection of eleven essays by Sir Peter Strawson, one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers.