Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 2 'Freedom and Resentment' at 50

by Shoemaker, David; Tognazzini, Neal

• ISBN13: 9780198722120
• ISBN10: 0198722125
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-02-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction, David Shoemaker and Neal Tognazzini
1. Freedom and the Self: Feeling and Belief, Galen Strawson
INTERPRETATION AND CRITIQUE
2. Peter Strawson on Responsibility and Sociality, Gary Watson
3. Freedom and Forgiveness, Lucy Allais
4. P. F. Strawson's Consequentialism, Victoria McGeer
5. Peter Strawson and the Facts of Agency, John Martin Fischer
ATTITUDES AND RELATIONSHIPS
6. Emotions and Relationships: On a Theme from Strawson, R. Jay Wallace
7. Reactivity and Refuge
STRAWSONIAN THEMES
8. A Moral Assessment of Strawson's Retributive Reactive Attitudes, Margaret R. Holmgren
9. Trust as a Reactive Attitude, Bennett W. Helm
10. Worthy of Praise: Responsibility and Better-than-Minimally-Decent Agency, Andrew S. Eshleman