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[003938] Van Straaten, Zak (Ed) Philosophical Subjects – Essays Presented to P. F. Strawson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Good+. ISBN: 019824603x. [5]-vi, [3], 2-302pp. Original cloth in DJ

DJ faded to spine and edges. Bookplate of Professor James P. Griffin to front pastedown, otherwise quite bright and clean

Festschrift for Strawson’s sixtieth birthday, including essays by Ayer, McDowell and Quine. Peter Frederick Strawson (1919-2006) was an important and influential philosopher of the late twentieth century. His writings range over philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and the history of philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)