Peter Strawson Freedom and Resentment
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The purpose of this brief paper is to elucidate the concept of the person as a member of a communal or civil society. It will try to answer the question as to what makes a person a person, and the corollary question as to how the person... more
Thomas Nagel in ‘What is it like to be a bat?’ suggests that we don’t yet have much idea of how mental entities could be identical with physical ones (though he wisely stops short of accusing physicalists of not meaning ANYTHING... more
Early Confucian “moral psychology” developed in the context of undoing reactive emotions in order to promote relationships of reciprocal recognition. Early Confucian texts diagnose the pervasiveness of reactive emotions under specific... more
This paper develops a form of transcendental naïve realism. According to naïve realism, veridical perceptual experiences are essentially relational. According to transcendental naïve realism, the naïve realist theory of perception is not... more
Contra the dominant readings, Hieronymi—refusing to sideline concerns of metaphysics for the impasse of normativity—argues that the core of Strawson's argument in "Freedom and Resentment" rests on an implicit and overlooked metaphysics of... more
There is stock argument against libertarianism: that the indeterminism it postulates makes human choice a matter of chance and this is no better as a basis for practical rationality and moral responsibility than the most rigid... more
This paper investigates some unexplored ambivalences of Strawson’s distinction between the participant stance marked by reactive attitudes, and the objective stance in which such attitudes are deemed inappropriate. First, it is introduced... more
My comment concentrates on very general theoretical lines in Hauke Brunkhorst's Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions. The focus lies on forms of normativity and their interconnection with negativity. Two different approaches to... more
Under the hypothesis that every attribution of responsibility rests on the fact that an expectation has been breached, the author proposes to understand expectations as standards adopted by a community to evaluate specific events and... more
Medicine has traditionally been seen as a problem for democratic theory. This paper suggests that it is also an opportunity. Medicine appears as primarily a problem for democracy when it is understood in the usual terms of expert... more
""Resumen: La presente investigación pretende tensionar al concepto de la transición chilena a la luz de dos ejes. El primero abordará tanto un análisis desde la filosofía del lenguaje, las maneras de hablar sobre lo humano y el... more
Discusses and defends Peter Strawson’s argument in ‘Freedom and Resentment’ that our practice of holding agents responsible for their actions is not something that can be given a justification or stands in need of one, since it is not... more
P. F. Strawson's influential article "Freedom and Resentment" has been much commented on, and one of the most trenchant commentaries is Rajendra Prasad's, "Reactive Attitudes, Rationality, and Determinism." In his article, Prasad contests... more