Staff Profile:Professor Galen Strawson
- Name:
- Professor Galen Strawson
- Job Title:
- Professor
- Responsibilities:
- Professorial
- Areas of Interest:
Philosophy: philosophy of mind, history of philosophy, metaphysics
PhD Supervision:
Part Two: Early Modern Philosophy
Part Three: philosophy of mind, the self and subject of experience, causationPhD: supervision: philosophy of mind, perception, british empiricists, Kant, free will, the self, metaphysics, Socrates' question [how should I live?].
- Research groups / Centres:
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 44.
2012
- Strawson, G. (2012) "We live beyond any tale that we happen to enact". Harvard Review of Philosophy, 18. pp. 73-90. ISSN 2153-9154
- Strawson, G. (2012) I and I: immunity to error through misidentification of the subject. In: Prosser, S. and Recanati, F. (eds.) Immunity to Error Through Misidentification: New Essays. Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780521198301 (In Press)
2011
- Strawson, G. (2011) The impossibility of ultimate moral responsibility? In: Swinburne, R. (ed.) Free will and modern science. Oxford University Press, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780197264898
- Strawson, G. (2011) Cognitive phenomenology : real life. In: Bayne, T. and Montague, M. (eds.) Cognitive phenomenology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 285-325. ISBN 9780199579938
- Strawson, G. (2011) The evident connexion: Hume on personal identity. Oxford University Press, USA, pp192. ISBN 9780199608508
- Strawson, G. (2011) The minimal self. In: Gallagher, S. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy . Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 253-278. ISBN 9780199548019
- Strawson, G. (2011) Locke on personal identity: consciousness and concernment. Princton University Press, pp280. ISBN 9780691147574
- Strawson, G. (2011) Owning the past: reply to Stokes. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18 (3-4). pp. 170-195. ISSN 1355-8250
2010
- Strawson, G. (2010) Radical self-awareness. In: Siderits, M., Thompson, E. and Zahavi, D. (eds.) Self, no self?: Perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199593804
- Strawson, G. J. (2010) Freedom and belief. Revised 2nd edition with new appendix. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp336. ISBN 9780199247509
- Strawson, G. J. (2010) Fundamental singleness: how to turn the 2nd paralogism into a valid argument. In: Phemister, P., Kiverstein, J. and Basile, P. (eds.) The Metaphysics of Consciousness. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 67. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 61-92. ISBN 9780521173919 doi: 10.1017/S1358246110000159
- Strawson, G. J. (2010) Narrativity and non-narrativity. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1 (6). pp. 775-780. ISSN 1939-5086 doi: 10.1002/wcs.92
- Strawson, G. J. (2010) 'The depth(s) of the twentieth century'. Analysis, 70 (4). ISSN 1467-8284
2009
- Strawson, G. (2009) Mental Reality. 2nd edition. MIT, Massachusetts, pp400. ISBN 9780262513104
- Strawson, G. (2009) Selves: an essay in revisionary metaphysics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp472. ISBN 9780198250067
- Strawson, G. (2009) Galen Strawson: 5 questions on action. In: Aguilar, J. and Buckareff, A. (eds.) Philosophy of action: 5 Questions. 5 questions. Automatic Press / VIP, pp. 253-259. ISBN 792130089
- Strawson, G. (2009) Selves. In: McLaughlin, B. and Beckermann, A. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 541-564. ISBN 9780199262618
- Strawson, G. (2009) The self. In: McLaughlin, B. and Beckermann, A. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp680. ISBN 9780199262618
- Strawson, G. (2009) Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism. In: Skrbina, D. (ed.) Mind that abides: panpsychism in the new millennium. Advances in consciousness research (75). John Benjamins Publishing Company , Amsterdam, pp. 33-57. ISBN 9789027252111
- Strawson, G. (2009) Galen Strawson: 5 questions on mind and consciousness. In: Grim, P. (ed.) Mind and consciousness: 5 questions. 5 questions. Automatic Press / VIP, pp. 191-204. ISBN 8792130100
- Strawson, G. (2009) Against 'corporism': the two uses of 'I'. Organon F, 16 (4). pp. 428-448. ISSN 1335-0668
- Strawson, G. (2009) Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism, and on the sesmet theory of subjectivity. In: Skrbina, D. (ed.) Mind that abides: panpsychism in the new millennium. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 33-65. ISBN 9789027252111
- Strawson, G. (2009) The impossibility of ultimate moral responsibility. In: Pereboom, D. (ed.) Free will. Hackett readings in philosophy. Hackett, Indianapolis, pp432. ISBN 978-1-60384-130-6
2008
- Strawson, G. (2008) Real materialism and other essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp496. ISBN 9780199267422
- Strawson, G. (2008) Real intentionality. Teorema, 27 (3 (Special Issue)). pp. 35-39. ISSN 0210-1602
- Strawson, G. (2008) The identity of the categorical and the dispositional. Analysis, 68 (4). pp. 271-282. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: 10.1093/analys/68.4.271
2007
- Strawson, G. (2007) Episodic ethics. In: Hutto, D. (ed.) Narrative and understanding persons. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp234. ISBN 9780521714099
- Strawson, G. J. (2007) Why I have no future. The Philosophers' Magazine, 38 (2nd quarter). pp. 21-26. ISSN 1354-814X
2006
- Strawson, G. (2006) Reply to commentators, with a celebration of Descartes. In: Freeman, A. (ed.) Consciousness and its place in nature: does physicalism entail panpsychism? Thorverton: Imprint Academic, pp. 184-280. ISBN 9781845400590
- Strawson, G. (2006) Free agents. Philosophical Topics, 32 (1/2). pp. 371-402. ISSN 0276-2080
- Strawson, G. (2006) Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism. In: Freeman, A. (ed.) Consciousness and its place in nature: does physicalism entail panpsychism? Thorverton: Imprint Academic, pp. 3-31. ISBN 9781845400590
2005
- Strawson, G. (2005) Introduction. In: Strawson, G. (ed.) The Self? Ratio Special Issues. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Oxford, pp144. ISBN 9781405129879
- Strawson, G. (2005) Free will. In: Craig, E. (ed.) The concise Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. Routledge, London, pp1030. ISBN 9780415223645
- Strawson, G. (2005) Gegen die Narrativitat. Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie, 53. pp. 3-22. ISSN 0012-1045
- Strawson, G. (2005) Intentionality and experience: terminological preliminaries. In: Smith, D. and Thomasson, A. (eds.) Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 41-66. ISBN 9780199272440
2004
- Strawson, G. (2004) Against narrativity. Ratio, 17 (4). pp. 428-52. ISSN 0034-0006 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2004.00264.x
- Strawson, G. (2004) A fallacy of our age: against narrative. Times Literary Supplement (5298). ISSN 0307-661X
- Strawson, G. J. (2004) Real intentionality. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 3 (3). pp. 287-313. ISSN 1572-8676 doi: 10.1023/B:PHEN.0000049306.63185.0f
2003
- Strawson, G. J. (2003) Freedom evolves: evolution explains it all for you [book review]. New York Times Book Review. 2 Mar 2003.
- Strawson, G. J. (2003) Blood and memory. The Guardian. 4 Jan 2003. ISSN 0261-3077
- Strawson, G. J. (2003) Mental ballistics: the involuntariness of spontaneity. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 103 (1). pp. 227-256. ISSN 1467-9264 doi: 10.1111/j.0066-7372.2003.00071.x
- Strawson, G. J. (2003) Real materialism. In: Antony, L.M. and Hornstein, N. (eds.) Chomsky and his critics. Philosophers and their critics. Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 49-88. ISBN 9780631200215
- Strawson, G. J. (2003) What is the relation between an experience, the subject of an experience, and the content of the experience? Philosophical Issues, 13. pp. 279-315. ISSN 1758-2237 doi: 10.1111/1533-6077.00015
- Strawson, G. J. (2003) The impossibility of moral responsibility. In: Watson, G. (ed.) Free will. 2nd edition. Oxford readings in philosophy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 212-228. ISBN 9780199254941
Professor Strawson has written books on free will (Freedom and Belief), causation (The Secret Connexion) and the mind-body problem (Mental Reality). His book on the self (Selves) was published in 2009. Most recently he has published two books on personal identity (Locke on personal identity, and The Evident Connexion: Hume on personal identity). He has published many articles on the philosophy of mind,moral philosophy and other subjects, and is currently working on the ethics and psychology of our experience of time.