Galen Strawson

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Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), Locke, Hume and Kant.

Strawson taught at Oxford for many years and now is a professor at Reading University and at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has also been a consultant editor at The Times Literary Supplement for many years, and a regular book reviewer for The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Financial Times and The Guardian.

Galen Strawson is the son of P. F. Strawson.

[edit] Books

• Freedom and Belief (1986) [ISBN 0-19-823933-5]
• The Secret Connexion (1989) [ISBN 0-19-824038-4]
• Mental Reality (1995) [ISBN 0-262-19352-3]
• The Self? (editor) (2005) [ISBN 1-4051-2987-5]
• Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does physicalism entail panpsychism? (2006) [ISBN 1-84540-059-3]

[edit] External links

• Galen Strawson's faculty web page at the CUNY Graduate Center
• Galen Strawson's personal page at the University of Reading
• Imprint Academic