Barry Stroud
Barry Stroud | |
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21st-century philosophy | |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Main interests | Philosophical skepticism, David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Notable ideas | Transcendental approach to dealing with philosophical skepticism[1] |
Barry Stroud (/straʊd/; 18 May 1935 – 9 August 2019) was a Canadian philosopher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Known especially for his work on philosophical skepticism, he wrote about David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the metaphysics of color, and many other topics.
Biography
Barry Greenwood Stroud was born on 18 May 1935 in Toronto, Canada.[2][3] He was the second of two sons to William and Florence Stroud (who were both born in the U.K. but emigrated to Canada as children).[3] He attended high school at the East York Collegiate.[4]
Academic career
Stroud received a B.A. in philosophy from the
From 1961, until his retirement, Stroud worked at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stroud was a visiting professor of philosophy at the
Over 1986–1987, as a visiting fellow of
Philosophical work
Stroud's first book Hume (1977),
2011 would also see the publication of the first book-length critical treatment of Stroud's thought, The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud.[1] It included essay contributions from Robert Fogelin, Ernest Sosa, John McDowell, Sarah Stroud[33] and UC Berkeley colleague Hannah Ginsborg[34] amongst others.[35] Some of the central themes of his philosophical work are interpreted and elaborated upon in the volume editors' introduction to that work.[36]
Several collections of Stroud's essays would also be published in his lifetime, the last of these appearing in 2018.[37][6]
Death
Having been diagnosed with advanced stage brain cancer just two months prior, Barry Stroud died on 9 August 2019.[38]
Announcing his death, Berkeley Philosophy Department recorded that:
His body of work, his influence on generations of students, his imprint on the character of our department, the example that he set of the purest philosophical inquiry — all of it is beyond reckoning. As hard as it is to imagine what philosophy at Berkeley will be like without him, it is even harder to imagine what it would have been.[38]
A memorial by former student, and fellow philosopher, John Schwenkler was published by 3 Quarks Daily on 19 August 2019.[39]
Obituaries in the Berkeley News and The Daily Californian followed shortly after.[40][41]
Bibliography
Books
- (1977) ISBN 0415203635, 9780415203630
- (1984) ISBN 978-0-19-824761-6.
- (1999) The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513388-2.
- (2000) Understanding Human Knowledge: Philosophical Essays. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-825033-3.
- (2000) ISBN 978-0-19-825034-0.
- (2011) Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction: Modality and Value. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976496-9.
- (2011) Philosophers Past and Present: Selected Essays. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-960859-1.
- (2018) Seeing, Knowing, Understanding: Philosophical Essays. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-880975-3
Select articles/chapters
- (1965) Wittgenstein and Logical Necessity (1965). Reprinted in: A Priori Knowledge, 1987
- (1968) Transcendental Arguments The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 65, No. 9 (May 2, 1968), pp. 241–256
- (1980) Berkeley v. Locke on Primary Qualities Philosophy, Vol. 55, No. 212 (Apr., 1980), pp. 149–166
- (1984) The Problem of the External World Chapter I of The Significance of Philosophical Skepticism (1984)
- (1984) The Disappearing ‘We’, Jonathan Lear, Barry Stroud, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Volume 58, Issue 1, 1 July 1984, pp. 219–258,
- (1984) G. E. Moore and Scepticism: ‘Internal’ and ‘External, Chapter III of The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism
- (1985) An End to Anxiety: Review of four books on Wittgenstein, The London Review of Books18 July 1985
- (1987) XV—The Physical World, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 87, Issue 1, 1 June 1987, pp.263–277
- (1988) The Study of Human Nature and the Subjectivity of Value, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
- (1994) Philosophical Scepticism, Ernest Sosa, Barry Stroud Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 68 (1994), pp. 263–307
- (1996) The Charm of Naturalism, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association70 (2):43 - 55 (1996)
- (2008) Modes of philosophizing: A round table debate with Jonathan Barnes, Myles Burnyeat and Raymond Geuss, Eurozine, May 2008
- (2011) Feelings and the Ascription of Feelings, Teorema, January 2011 pp. 25–33
- (2016) Responses to Sceptical Essays Sképsis, ISSN 1981-4194, ANO VII, Nº 14, 2016, p. 218-233.
Full publications list: at UC Berkeley homepage.
See also
- Canadian philosophy
- List of Canadian philosophers
References
- ^ ISSN 1538-1617.
- ^ ISBN 9781472570543.
- ^ , retrieved 2019-08-15
- ^ ISBN 9780199608591.)
- ISBN 9780198809753.
- ^ ISBN 9780191859205.
- ^ a b "UC Berkeley - Department of Philosophy". philosophy.berkeley.edu. 28 August 2016. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
- ^ a b "Professor Barry Stroud". The British Academy. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
- ^ a b c "Barry Stroud". philosophy.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Barry Stroud". Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ^ "British Academy Fellows, Record for: STROUD, Professor Barry". Archived from the original on 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
- ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences [Member Search]". members.amacad.org. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
- ^ "The John Locke Lectures | Faculty of Philosophy". www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
- JSTOR 27654057.
- ^ "John Dewey Lectures - The American Philosophical Association". www.apaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- JSTOR 25656207.
- ^ "Patrick Romanell Lecture - The American Philosophical Association". www.apaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ^ "Sképsis | Number 14 On Barry Stroud on Skepticism". Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ^ "Barry Stroud - Bibliography". philosophy.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ISSN 1981-4194, ANO VII, Nº 14, 2016, p. 40-56.
- ^ "ANPOF - Nota de Falecimento do Prof. Barry Stroud" [Note of Death of Prof. Barry Stroud]. anpof.org (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ^ "'Pessoas estão mais ricas, mas vida hoje é mais pobre', diz filósofo - 09/12/2014 - Mercado" ['People are richer, but life today is poorer,' says philosopher']. Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- OCLC 3514852.
- R. F. Atkinson Hume StudiesVolume IV, Number 2 (November, 1978), 79-85
- JSTOR 2738073.
- JSTOR 2216224.
- JSTOR 2184470.
- ISBN 9780191598494.
- ISSN0026-4423.
- ^ Colour, World and Archimedean Metaphysics: Stroud and the Quest for Reality Justin Broackes [Draft Preprint] published version: Broackes, J. Erkenntnis (2007) 66: 27.
- ISSN 0031-8205.
- ISSN 1538-1617.
- ISSN 1981-4194.. Revised and shortened version of her chapter in The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding (2011).
- ^ Hannah Ginsborg (2011). "Inside and Outside Language: Stroud's Nonreductionism about Meaning" (PDF). In Jason Bridges; Niko Kolodny; Wai-Hung Wong (eds.). The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 147–181.
- ISBN 9780195381658.
- ^ The Quest to Understand Philosophy [Final Draft (Preprint)] Jason Bridges, Niko, Kolodny, published form (2011): DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381658.003.0001
- ISSN 1538-1617.
- ^ a b UC Berkeley - Department of Philosophy. "Barry Stroud (1935-2019)". philosophy.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-08-13. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ^ Schwenkler, John (2019-08-19). "In Memoriam: Barry Stroud (1935-2019)". 3 Quarks Daily. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ Anwar, Yasmin (2019-08-21). "Barry Stroud, influential, independent-minded philosopher, dies at 84". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
- ^ Staff, Maya Akkaraju | (2019-08-28). "UC Berkeley professor of philosophy Barry Stroud dies at age 84". The Daily Californian. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
External links
- Barry Stroud tribute page
- Barry Stroud on Scepticism, Philosophy Bites podcast interview, December 16, 2007
- Stroud in conversation with Donald Davidson on skepticism, video (1997)