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DESCRIPTION:Work in Progress Seminar Series | Fall 2022\n\n“Reflections on 
 a New Role for Strawson’s Thesis”\n\nAlex Carty\n	Friday\, October 14\, 202
 2\n	3:30-5:30 PM\n	Leacock Building\, Room 927\n	\n	Abstract:\n	Over the last q
 uarter-century it has become routine to understand the concept of moral re
 sponsibility in terms of what P.F. Strawson called “the reactive attitudes
 \,” but this manner of speaking is rarely accompanied by a commitment to a
 ll the claims which gave his 1962 essay “Freedom and Resentment” its strik
 ing originality. Of all the recent commentators who draw from Strawson’s a
 rgument for compatibilism in their accounts of moral responsibility\, many
  who are sympathetic to his insights would at least accept something like 
 what David Brink and Dana Nelkin call Strawson’s Thesis: reactive attitude
 s involving praise and blame are appropriate just in case the targets of t
 hese reactive attitudes are responsible. Recent controversy about which si
 de of this biconditional has metaphysical and explanatory priority has led
  to an opposition between so-called response-dependent and response-indepe
 ndent interpretations of Strawson’s Thesis. This taxonomy of interpretatio
 ns is helpful\, so far as it goes\, but I worry that it risks neglecting o
 ne very important and delicate aspect of Strawson’s compatibilism–what he 
 calls the “half-suspension” of reactive attitudes. Drawing on collaborativ
 e work with Neil Campbell\, I use our account of the half-suspension of re
 active attitudes to argue for replacing Strawson’s Thesis with what I’ll c
 all Strawson’s Degree Thesis: the degree to which an agent is an appropria
 te target of our practices blaming or praising attitudes is a function of 
 the degree to which that agent is morally responsible. In my estimation\, 
 abandoning Strawson’s Thesis for Strawson’s Degree Thesis puts us in a pos
 ition to make better sense of the richness and context-sensitive nature of
  our attitudes and practices of holding others morally responsible.\n
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LOCATION:Room 927\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Alex Carty\, “Reflections on a New Role for Strawson’s Thesis”
URL:/philosophy/channels/event/alex-carty-reflections-
 new-role-strawsons-thesis-342728
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