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

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. Born in Oakland, California, he was a distinguished

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and a noted scholar in the fields of

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

philosophy of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, ...

, and twentieth-century

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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, 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, 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'',

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, 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 Philosophers of language Epistemologists 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers 2013 deaths {{US-philosopher-stub