Avrum Stroll (February 15, 1921 – September 12, 2013) was a research professor at the University of California, San Diego. Born in Oakland, California, he was a distinguished philosopher and a noted scholar in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of language, and twentieth-century analytic philosophy.
The emotive theory of ethics. University of California Press, 1954Introduction 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, 1973Philosophy and Contemporary Problems. Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll, Holt Rinehart & Winston, February 1984Surfaces. University of Minnesota Press, 1988Philosophy (Made Simple Books) by Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll, Made Simple, September 8, 1986 (1993)Moore and Wittgenstein on certainty. Oxford University Press, 1994Introductory Readings In Philosophy. Avrum Stroll, Richard H. Popkin. Harcourt Brace* Co, November 1997Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone. Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll. Prometheus Books, January 2002, HardcoverWittgenstein (Oneworld Philosophers). Oneworld Publications, July 2002 (2007)Did My Genes Make Me Do It? Oneworld Publications, August 25, 2004, HardcoverSketches of Landscapes. The MIT Press, December 5, 1997, HardcoverTwentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy. Columbia University Press, September 15, 2001, PaperbackPhilosophy. Richard Popkin, Avrum StrollMuch Ado about Nonexistence. A.P. Martinich, Avrum Stroll. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., June 28, 2007 HardcoverInformal philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009Articles
Proper Names, Names, and Fictive Objects, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 95, No. 10 (Oct., 1998), pp. 522–534Wittgenstein and the Dream Hypothesis. Philosophia 37 (4) [2]