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Robert Cecil, 4 April 1985
The Soviet Union and Terrorism
by Roberta Goren.
Allen and Unwin, 232 pp., £17.50, November 1984, 0 04 327073 5Show More
The Great Purges
by Isaac Deutscher and David King.
Blackwell, 176 pp., £12.50, November 1984, 0 631 13923 0Show More
SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940-46
by M.R.D. Foot.
BBC, 280 pp., £8.50, October 1984, 0 563 20193 2Show More
A History of the SAS Regiment
by John Strawson.
Secker, 292 pp., £12.95, November 1984, 0 436 49992 4Show More
"... to become a Soviet base – the so-called People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. Major-General Strawson concludes his study and brings it up to date with brief chapters on the part played by the SAS in the siege of the Iranian Embassy in London and in the Falklands fighting. He prudently writes little about the SAS in Northern Ireland. What he does write ..."
Existence Unperceived
W.D. Hart, 15 October 1981
Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P.F. Strawson
edited by Zak van Straaten.
Oxford, 302 pp., £12.50, November 1980, 9780198246039Show More
"... Professor Sir Peter Strawson is properly honoured by the 12 essays written for this anthology. Unlike the papers in some other collections of this kind, most of these are addressed to issues in which Strawson has a serious interest and on which he has done substantial work. It is therefore delightful to find that Philosophical Subjects also contains Strawson's replies to each of the essays presented to him ..."
Colin McGinn, 23 November 1989
The Secret Connection: Causation, Realism and David Hume
by Galen Strawson.
Oxford, 291 pp., £32.50, August 1989, 0 19 824853 9Show More
J.L. Austin
by G.J. Warnock.
Routledge, 165 pp., £30, August 1989, 0 415 02962 7Show More
"... conclusions from epistemological premises: 'if no ideas then no reality'. Now here comes Galen Strawson to argue that Hume has been grievously misrepresented all along: for the real David Hume never denied the objective reality of causal necessity. He firmly believed in it. And so Hume's reputation is set to rise high again. He did not, after all, commit ..."
Ayer, Anscombe and Empiricism
Alasdair MacIntyre, 17 April 1980
Perception and Identity: Essays presented to A.J. Ayer with his replies to them
edited by G.E. MacDonald.
Macmillan, 358 pp., £15, December 1979, 0 333 27182 3Show More
Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honour of G.E.M. Anscombe
edited by Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichmann.
Harvester, 205 pp., £16.95, December 1979, 0 85527 985 0Show More
"... philosophy and been effective public spokesmen for the secular and liberal causes of their day. John Stuart Mill was one such, and Bertrand Russell another. In our own time, the latest and perhaps the last of this chain of great figures has been Sir Alfred Ayer. Ayer shares with Russell and with Mill not only an intellectual allegiance to empiricist ..."
The Sense of the Self
Galen Strawson, 18 April 1996
"... of myself as a mental self, my feeling is that I am continually new. In his autobiography, John Updike writes: 'I have the persistent sensation, in my life ... that I am just beginning.' This seems exactly right. The experience of the 'I' as in some sense new each time is (I suggest) fundamental and universally available, although it is ..."
Religion is a sin
Galen Strawson: Immortality!, 2 June 2011
Saving God: Religion after Idolatry
by Mark Johnston.
Princeton, 198 pp., £16.95, August 2009, 978 0 691 14394 1Show More
Surviving Death
Princeton, 393 pp., £24.95, February 2010, 978 0 691 13012 5Show More
"... will, you will live on in future people who have legitimate interests. You will live on in what John Stuart Mill called 'the onward rush' of humanity. It may be objected that really you're expanding your self in this case, rather than dissolving it. But to do the former is to do the latter, given the practical human situation, and Johnston gives a ..."
'We would rather eat our cake than merely have it'
Rosemary Hill: Victorian men and women, 4 October 2001
A Circle of Sisters: Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
by Judith Flanders.
Penguin, 392 pp., £17.99, September 2001, 0 670 88673 4Show More
The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939
by Adam Nicolson.
Short Books, 96 pp., £4.99, May 2001, 0 571 20835 5Show More
Victorian Diaries: The Daily Lives of Victorian Men and Women
edited by Heather Creaton.
Mitchell Beazley, 144 pp., £14.99, February 2001, 1 84000 359 6Show More
"... big success was Faithful unto Death says all that need be said here about his work. Alice married John Lockwood Kipling, a sculptor who went to teach art in India, and became the mother of Rudyard. Only Louisa made what seemed at the time a good match from the material point of view, becoming the wife of Alfred Baldwin, iron founder and, later, MP. Their only ..."