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Strawson on Free Will and Reactive Attitudes Strawson on Free Will and Reactive Attitudes
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Assessing Strawson's Arguments Assessing Strawson's Arguments
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Exemptions, Moral Capacity, and Reflective Self-Control Exemptions, Moral Capacity, and Reflective Self-Control
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Holding and Being Responsible Holding and Being Responsible
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History, Skepticism, and Pessimism: Hard Incompatibilism and Critical Compatibillism History, Skepticism, and Pessimism: Hard Incompatibilism and Critical Compatibillism
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Concluding Remarks Concluding Remarks
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Notes Notes
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10 Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility
Get accessPaul Russell is Professor of Philosophy at Lund University (Sweden) the University of British Columbia (Canada). At Lund he is also the Director of the Lund | Gothenburg Responsibility project. Among his books are Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume’s Way of Naturalizing Responsibility (Oxford University Press 1995) and The Limits of Free Will: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press 2017).
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
This article discusses another important class of new compatibilist theories of agency and responsibility, frequently referred to as reactive attitude theories. Such theories have their roots in another seminal essay of modern free-will debates, P. F. Strawson's “Freedom and Resentment” (1962). This article disentangles three strands of Strawson's argument—rationalist, naturalist, and pragmatic. It also considers other recent reactive attitude views that have attempted to remedy flaws in Strawson's view, focusing particularly on the view of R. Jay Wallace. Wallace supplies an account of moral capacity, which is missing in Strawson's view, in terms of an account of what Wallace calls “reflective self-control.” The article concludes with suggestions of how a reactive attitude approach to moral responsibility that builds on the work of Strawson, Wallace, and others might be successfully developed.
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