Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British 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 and Kant. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford (1959 65), from where he won a scholarship to Winchester College (1965-8). He left school at sixteen, after completing his A-levels and winning a place at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, he read Islamic Studies (1969 71), Social and Political Science (1971 72), and Moral Sciences (1972 73), before moving to the University of Oxford, where he received his BPhil in philosophy in 1977 and his DPhil in philosophy in 1983. He also spent a year as an auditeur libre at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at the Université de Paris as a French Government Scholar (1977 78). Strawson taught at the University of Oxford from 1979 to 2000, first as a Stipendiary Lecturer at University College (197980), Exeter College (1980 83), St Hugh's College (1983 85), New College (1985 86), and St Hilda's College (1986 87), and then, from 1987 on, as Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford.