Personal Life
After serving as a captain in the war, Strawson married Ann Martin in 1945 and had four children. He lived in Oxford all his adult life and died in hospital on 13 February 2006 after a short illness. Strawson's son, Galen Strawson (born 1952), is also a philosopher. P. F. Strawson was elder brother to Major General John Strawson.
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