Avrum Stroll (February 15, 1921 – September 12, 2013) was an American research professor at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...

. Born in Oakland, California, he was a distinguished

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and a noted scholar in the fields of

epistemology Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowle ...

philosophy of language Philosophy of language refers to the philosophical study of the nature of language. It investigates the relationship between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of Meaning (philosophy), me ...

, and twentieth-century

analytic philosophy Analytic philosophy is a broad movement within Western philosophy, especially English-speaking world, anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis as a philosophical method; clarity of prose; rigor in arguments; and making use of formal logic, mat ...

Publications

Books

* ''The Emotive Theory of Ethics''. University of California Press, 1954 * ''Introduction to philosophy''. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961 (1972, 1979) * ''Epistemology''. Harper & Row, 1967 (Greenwood Press, 1979) * ''Philosophy and the Human Spirit''. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 * ''Philosophy and Contemporary Problems''.

Richard H. Popkin Richard Henry Popkin (December 27, 1923 – April 14, 2005) was an American academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism. His 1960 work ''The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to ...

, Avrum Stroll, Holt Rinehart & Winston, February 1984 * ''Surfaces''.

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, 1988 * ''Philosophy Made Simple'' by

, Avrum Stroll, Made Simple Books, September 8, 1986 (1993), Paperback * ''Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty''. Oxford University Press, 1994 * ''Introductory Readings In Philosophy''. Avrum Stroll,

. Harcourt Brace* Co, November 1997 * ''Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone''.

, Avrum Stroll.

Prometheus Books Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry). The publ ...

, January 2002, Hardcover * ''Wittgenstein'' (Oneworld Philosophers). Oneworld Publications, July 2002 (2007) * ''Did My Genes Make Me Do It?'' Oneworld Publications, August 25, 2004, Hardcover * ''Sketches of Landscapes''.

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, December 5, 1997, Hardcover * ''Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy''.

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, September 15, 2001, Paperback * ''Philosophy''.

, Avrum Stroll * ''Much Ado about Nonexistence''.

A.P. Martinich Aloysius Patrick Martinich (born June 28, 1946), usually cited as A. P. Martinich, also ''Al Martinich'', is an American analytic philosopher. He is the Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at University of Texas at Aus ...

, Avrum Stroll. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., June 28, 2007 Hardcover * ''Informal philosophy''. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009Stroll, Avrum
Informal philosophy
2009, Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved March 2011

Articles

* ''Proper Names, Names, and Fictive Objects'',

The Journal of Philosophy ''The Journal of Philosophy'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal on philosophy, founded in 1904 at Columbia University. Its stated purpose is "To publish philosophical articles of current interest and encourage the interchange of ideas, es ...

, Vol. 95, No. 10 (Oct., 1998), pp. 522–534 *''Wittgenstein and the Dream Hypothesis''. Philosophia 37 (4

References

Analytic philosophers University of California, San Diego faculty 1921 births American philosophers of language American epistemologists 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers 2013 deaths {{US-philosopher-stub