Avrum Stroll (February 15, 1921 – September 12, 2013) was an American research professor at the University of California, San Diego.[1] Born in Oakland, California,[2] he was a distinguished philosopher and a noted scholar in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of language, and twentieth-century analytic philosophy.[3][4]

Publications

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Books

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  • 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, Avrum Stroll, Holt Rinehart & Winston, February 1984
  • Surfaces. University of Minnesota Press, 1988
  • Philosophy Made Simple by Richard H. Popkin, 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, Richard H. Popkin. Harcourt Brace* Co, November 1997
  • Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone. Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll. Prometheus Books, 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. The MIT Press, December 5, 1997, Hardcover
  • Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy. Columbia University Press, September 15, 2001, Paperback
  • Philosophy. Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll
  • Much Ado about Nonexistence. A.P. Martinich, Avrum Stroll. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., June 28, 2007 Hardcover
  • Informal philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009[5]

Articles

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  • Proper Names, Names, and Fictive Objects, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 95, No. 10 (Oct., 1998), pp. 522–534
  • Wittgenstein and the Dream Hypothesis. Philosophia 37 (4) [1]

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Avrum Stroll (1921-2013)" (PDF). University of California, San Diego. September 17, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 26, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
  2. ^ "Reports of the President and of the Treasurer". 1971.
  3. ^ Works by Avrum Stroll philpapers.org. Retrieved March 2011
  4. ^ Avrum Stroll Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu. Retrieved March 2011
  5. ^ Stroll, Avrum, Informal philosophy 2009, Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved March 2011