...This chapter is concerned with Austin’s work on truth and his debate with Peter Strawson on that issue. It clarifies how the polemic with Strawson contributed to misrepresenting Austin’s views. It expounds Austin’s views on truth, comparing them with those of Gottlob Frege and highlighting...

... Empathy Caring for others moral responsibility psychopaths sociopaths emphatic concern altruism Peter Strawson I begin with an intuitive and rather obvious fact about suffering. This is that when you suffer, you want that suffering to end, other things being equal. Even if you consider your...

... moral feelings virtue agent impersonal moral obligations moral character empathy self understanding brain Peter Strawson reactive attitudes moral judgment Stephen Darwall egocentricity resentment Hitchcock, in Shadow of a Doubt, introduced a new kind of villain into his...

...Analytic Philosophy and Human Life. Thomas Nagel, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197681671.003.0029 This is a eulogy for the philosopher Peter Strawson, who died in 2006. Black M Malcolm N Rawls J Strawson P Wittgenstein L...

...This chapter begins by considering the aforementioned Stroudian critique of transcendental arguments. Some doubts are raised about whether Stroud has succeeded in giving a fully general argument against the possibility of transcendental arguments. Then Peter Strawson's reconstruction of what he...

...Stroud reviews the problem of transcendental arguments in general and develops Peter Strawson's account of such arguments. Stroud attempts to make a case for ‘invulnerability’, an epistemological status our beliefs might have, which on the one hand disarms scepticism and on the other does not go...

... of Bertrand Russell and Peter Strawson on that matter. The chapter assesses whether there are two uses of definite descriptions in the sense of two semantic functions, in one of which the description conveys speaker reference and in the other not; or if definite descriptions are used in two kinds...

... of the descriptions in the set of identifying descriptions. It studies Peter Strawson's claim that a name is worthless without a backing of descriptions. It also argues that a proper name may have a referent even though the conditions laid down by the principle are not satisfied and where the conditions are satisfied...

... reasons Subjective reasons Objective reasons Asymmetry Wolf’s thesis Fischer J Ravizza M Reasons responsiveness Tod P Tognazzini N Clarke R Scanlon T Vihvelin K Nelkin D Gary Watson Hierarchical theories John Martin Fischer Peter Strawson reactive attitudes reasons-responsiveness Susan...

... of reactive attitudes, as understood by Peter Strawson. coherence norm of consistency norm of cross temporal organization of thought and action desires intention planning norms plans plan states stability norm of will the fecundity of planning agency and structures Frankfurt Harry Gilbert Margaret...

... that sees these planning norms as fundamentally practical norms and that notes a parallel with Peter Strawson’s treatment of the framework of reactive attitudes. coherence of intention coherence norm of consistency norm of intention means end coherence norm of planning norms planning theory...

... are necessary and not sufficient. This chapter shows how formalism has been seen as a central issue for Kant's epistemology. It looks at authors who conclude that Kant's position is a formalist one. Paul Guyer and Peter Strawson argue that formalism results in the position that mind imposes order on objects...

... of view Strawson P F interpersonal objective attitude wanton Hieronymi P fairness Sher G character Peter Strawson resentment moral blame Gary Watson moral reasons guidance moral respnsibility I argue below that psychopaths are sometimes open to moral blame on account of their wrongdoing...

...This Chapter examines three sources of motivation for individualistic conceptions of persons (responsibility, identity, and practical rationality), all of which are in conceptual tension with the sorts of authority we can have over each other. We can relieve this tension in part by following Peter...

... personhood in analytic tradition human worth and dignity Gilbert Ryle Peter Strawson Derek Parfit Personalistic philosophy—the theory that the clue to the meaning of ultimate reality is found in personality . . . remains today my basic philosophical position. Personalism’s insistence that only...

...This chapter chronicles the troubled history of propositions in the thought of Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Peter Strawson, and John Langshaw “J. L.” Austin. After noting the central role of propositions and propositional functions in Russell’s philosophical logic, it explains how and why his...

... other regarding view sense of self objectual knowledge transcendent reality trading up love knowledge variety C. S. Lewis Anders Nygren Aristotle Plato Peter Strawson Iris Murdoch Troy Jollimore Perhaps the most influential and familiar taxonomy of the varieties of love—a quick bit...

... in his treatment of the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana with the aim of overcoming incomprehension surrounding that event by invoking a method of interpretive and comparative reasoning. Drawing on the ideas of Peter Strawson, the chapter shows what a critical humanistic assessment...