Starting question
The Depth(s) of the Twentieth Century
Strawson presents a compact indictment of a mid-to-late twentieth-century philosophical habit: reversing what he takes to be the natural explanatory order. Across desire, belief, meaning, emotion, consciousness, objects, powers, causation, and existence, he was taught that the outward, behavioural, dispositional, or experiential pattern explains the apparently prior inner or metaphysical fact. He thinks these reversals are the wrong way round.
> It seemed to me that all these claims were the wrong way round.
> I still think they’re all the wrong way round, but I feel a little less insecure.
