.../pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract We argue that P. F. Strawson's hugely influential account of moral responsibility in ‘Freedom and Resentment’ (FR) is inextricably bound up with his barely known account of morality in ‘Social Morality and Individual Ideal...

... thought. Demonstrative Thought Perception Properties Causation Empiricism P. F. Strawson How much of our thought about the world depends upon our being able to both perceive the world and think about what we perceive? One version of this old question concerns thought about objects. It asks how much...

... only for agents who fail to reflect properly on their own practical decision making. I mount a qualified defence of Hare's view by drawing on the account of the ‘reactive attitudes’ found in P. F. Strawson's ‘Freedom and Resentment’. Against Williams, I argue that the ‘resilience’ of the reactive...

...This chapter deals with the capacities required to attribute moral responsibility to ourselves and others. It examines P. F. Strawson’s account of the attribution of moral responsibility in his 1962 essay “Freedom and Resentment” and reconstructs his work in terms of an individualistic position...

...This chapter brings to light more of P. F. Strawson's underlying metaethical picture of the remaining objections. It addresses the pessimists' continued dissatisfactions from the firm conviction that there are conditions not just on the possibility or workability, but on the moral legitimacy...

... . ⁴ P. F. Strawson, ‘Truth’ (1950) in his Logico-Linguistic Papers (London: Methuen and Co., 1971), p.200 . ⁵ It is rather less attractive if you think of other statements like ‘Two plus two equals four’, ‘There are no unicorns’, ‘If Kennedy had not been assassinated...

..., the participatory stance, following P. F. Strawson; whereas if the agent lacks the sense of herself as an active participant in practice, then her moral judgments about what she ought to do may fail to do what they ought to do, i.e. to mobilize her for action. This is held to constitute...

... is that to accuse a philosopher of Platonism or Cartesianism is currently felt to be a seriously damaging charge. Ayer A J Collingwood R G Kant I Rogers B Austin J L Quine W V O Russell B Langton R Leibniz G Hume D Grice H P Moore G E Ryle G Wittgenstein L Frege G Descartes R Plato P. F. Strawson...

... that the narrow approach, while it has legitimate criticisms to make of Strawson’s original strategy, nevertheless takes us in the wrong direction and involves an unacceptable distortion and truncation of moral responsibility. Lying at the heart of P. F. Strawson’s core strategy in “Freedom and Resentment” is his...

... with very different kinds of appropriateness considerations. Many philosophers working on moral responsibility follow P. F. Strawson ( 1982 ) in understanding claims about someone’s moral responsibility or the phenomenon of holding people morally responsible in terms of the appropriateness of a certain...

... moral indifference Markovits Julia Bell Macalester withdrawal respect Wallace R Jay stance Strawson P F moral indifference relational wrong valid claims moral difference agential uncertainty recognition respect P. F. Strawson We all stand to be wronged as individual persons by the actions...

... by reflecting on ordinary practices of holding persons morally and legally responsible and leads to a distinction between different dimensions of responsibility. The chapter begins with a critical analysis of P. F. Strawson’s controversial “insulation thesis” according to which our ordinary...

... social structuralism anger Afflictive emotions anger destructive emotions Paul Ekman four-seven debate neo-Confucianism P. F. Strawson unwholesome emotions wholesome emotions A debate about natural teleology, about whether first human nature contains inside its packaging a code or recipe or set...

... contestants in these debates might agree is a bona fide desert thesis. P. F. Strawson essentialism about anger fittingness desert blame punishment free will skepticism abolitionism Let’s collect results. The overall arch of my argument naturally divides into three parts with three chapters for each...

... to cruelty and revenge, seeking the suffering of those at whom they are directed. Call this thesis t he thesis that the negative reactive attitudes are hostile and so morally unjustified t he hostility thesis. Even P. F. Strawson, who was no critic but instead an advocate for the value of these emotions...

... by the work of Harry Frankfurt, P. F. Strawson, and others. The discussion notes that compatibilists must look beyond conditional accounts of freedom if they are to fully blunt the force of incompatibilist arguments. Berofsky Bernard counterfactual power determinism Frankfurt type examples or cases...

...The best way to reveal the contemporary relevance and interest of the naturalistic interpretation of Hume's “reconciling project” is to show the striking affinities between it and P. F. Strawson's influential views on this subject. Whereas the classical interpretation presents Hume as an obvious...

...P. F. Strawson draws a distinction between what he calls the “participant stance” that people take toward those they regard as morally responsible agents, and the “objective stance” they take toward those who are not. This chapter explores the role these two stances play in oppressive moral...