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.