Galen Strawson

Strawson taught at the University Of Oxford from 1987-2000, as Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College Oxford. He is currently professor of philosophy at the University Of Reading and is a regular visitor at the City University Of New York Graduate Center Philosophy Program. He has 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 the celebrated philosopher Peter Frederick Strawson .

FREE WILL

In the Free Will debate Strawson holds the minority position of Hard Incompatibilism , which states that Free Will is impossible whether Determinism is true or not. He argues for this position by use of his Basic Argument, which aims to show that no one is ever ultimately morally responsible for their actions, and hence no one has free will. Strawson, Galen. "Free Will" in the Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy , ed. Edward Craig (1998); "The Bounds of Freedom" in ''The Oxford Handbook of Free Will'', ed. Robert Kane (2002).

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BOOKS

''Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does physicalism entail panpsychism?'' (2006) 1-84540-059-3

SELECTED ARTICLES

"The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility" (1994), ''Philosophical Studies'' 75 pp 5-24

"Real Materialism" (2003), in ''Chomsky and his Critics'' ed. L. Antony & N. Hornstein (Oxford: Blackwell), pp 49-88

"Mental ballistics: the involuntariness of spontaneity" (2003) ''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society'' pp 227-56

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