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This special volume of
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility presents ten new papers marking the fiftieth anniversary of P. F. Strawson's landmark essay, 'Freedom and Resentment'. They offer critical interpretation of Strawson's essay, expand on his insights into interpersonal relationships, and develop his themes in challenging directions.
List of contents
- Editors' Introduction
- 1: Galen Strawson: Freedom and the Self: Feeling and Belief
- INTERPRETATION AND CRITIQUE
- 2: Gary Watson: Peter Strawson on Responsibility and Sociality
- 3: Lucy Allais: Freedom and Forgiveness
- 4: Victoria McGeer: P. F. Strawson's Consequentialism
- 5: John Martin Fischer: Peter Strawson and the Facts of Agency
- ATTITUDES AND RELATIONSHIPS
- 6: R. Jay Wallace: Emotions and Relationships: On a Theme from Strawson
- 7: Michelle Mason: Reactivity and Refuge
- STRAWSONIAN THEMES
- 8: Margaret R. Holmgren: A Moral Assessment of Strawson's Retributive Reactive Attitudes
- 9: Bennett W. Helm: Trust as a Reactive Attitude
- 10: Andrew S. Eshleman: Worthy of Praise: Responsibility and Better-than-Minimally-Decent Agency
About the author
David Shoemaker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He has published forty articles and is the author, co-author, or editor of four books, several of which are about agency, responsibility, and/or personal identity.
Neal Tognazzini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at The College of William & Mary. He works at the intersection of metaphysics and ethics on problems of agency, free will, and moral responsibility. He is the author of more than twenty articles and is co-editor of Blame: Its Nature and Norms (OUP, 2013).
Summary
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes in moral philosophy and philosophy of action.
This special volume in the series presents ten new papers marking the fiftieth anniversary of P. F. Strawson's landmark essay, 'Freedom and Resentment'. Some of the papers offer critical interpretation of Strawson's essay, some expand on his insights into the nature of interpersonal relationships, and some develop his overall themes in new and challenging directions.
