Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British
analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on
philosophy of mind,
metaphysics (including
free will,
panpsychism, the
mind-body problem, and the
self),
John Locke,
David Hume,
Immanuel Kant and
Friedrich Nietzsche. He has been a consultant editor at
The Times Literary Supplement for many years, and a regular book reviewer for
The Observer,
The Sunday Times,
The Independent, the
Financial Times and
The Guardian. He is the son of philosopher
P. F. Strawson. He presently holds a Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the
University of Texas, Austin, and taught for many years prior to that at the
University of Reading,
City University of New York, and
Oxford University.