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Strawson’s Method in ‘Freedom and Resentment’
Journal of Ethics, 2019 While P.F. Strawson’s essay ‘Freedom and Resentment’ has had many commentators, discussions of it can be roughly divided into two categories. A first group has dealt with the essay as something that stands by itself in order to analyse Strawson’s main arguments and to expose its weaknesses.
Sybren Heyndels
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On Strawson On Kantian Apperception [PDF]
South African Journal of Philosophy, 2008 Strawson famously argues that Kant's argument for the necessary conditions of experience can only be retained once freed from a priori synthesis. Strawson claims that a purely ‘analytical connexion' between experience and the object of experience is conceptually inferable from a thoroughly analytic premise concerning the capacity for self-ascription of
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Methodological conservativism in Kant and Strawson [PDF]
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2018 ABSTRACTI argue that Kant’s transcendental idealism and Strawson’s descriptive metaphysics are both examples of what I call methodological conservativism.
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Strawson on Intended Meaning and Context
, 1999 Strawson proposed in the early seventies an attractive threefold distinction regarding how context bears on the meaning of 'what is said' when a sentence is uttered. The proposed scheme is somewhat crude and, being aware of this aspect, Strawson himself raised various points to make it more adequate.
Varol Akman, Ferda Nur Alpaslan
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"Freedom and Resentment" and Consequentialism: Why "Strawson's Point" is Not Strawson's Point
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2014 In The Second-Person Standpoint, Stephen Darwall offers an interpretation of P. F. Strawson’s “Freedom and Resentment” according to which the essay advances the thesis that good consequences are the “wrong kind of reason” to justify “practices of punishment and moral responsibility.” Darwall names this thesis “Strawson’s Point.” I argue for a different
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Strawson’s Descriptive Metaphysics
2012Strawson's descriptive metaphysics was the first explicit and elaborate rehabilitation of metaphysics within the analytic tradition. This chapter discusses Strawson's contributions to metaphysics with a particular view to his conception of the nature of metaphysics-cum-ontology.
Hans-Johann Glock
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South African Journal of Philosophy, 2008
AbstractThis paper is concerned with Sir Peter Strawson’s critical discussion of Paul Grice’s defence of the material implication analysis of conditionals. It argues that although Strawson’s own ‘consequentialist’ suggestion concerning the meaning of conditionals cannot be correct, a related and radically contextualist account is able to both account ...
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AbstractThis paper is concerned with Sir Peter Strawson’s critical discussion of Paul Grice’s defence of the material implication analysis of conditionals. It argues that although Strawson’s own ‘consequentialist’ suggestion concerning the meaning of conditionals cannot be correct, a related and radically contextualist account is able to both account ...
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The Philosophical Review, 1968
Most of the Critique of Pure Reason is prima facie dead, because prima facie dependent upon wholly indefensible theories. The commentator’s dominant problem is to display the life below the surface: showing where an argument has an innocent analogue yielding the same conclusion, or a weaker but still untrivial one; testing these mutant arguments and ...
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Most of the Critique of Pure Reason is prima facie dead, because prima facie dependent upon wholly indefensible theories. The commentator’s dominant problem is to display the life below the surface: showing where an argument has an innocent analogue yielding the same conclusion, or a weaker but still untrivial one; testing these mutant arguments and ...
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2020
This chapter reviews P. F. Strawson's aim to adjudicate and reconcile the debate between a gloomy incompatibilist about moral responsibility and determinism, whom he calls “the pessimist,” and a consequentialist compatibilist, whom he calls “the optimist.” It explains the optimist's argument that the practices of holding one another responsible are ...
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This chapter reviews P. F. Strawson's aim to adjudicate and reconcile the debate between a gloomy incompatibilist about moral responsibility and determinism, whom he calls “the pessimist,” and a consequentialist compatibilist, whom he calls “the optimist.” It explains the optimist's argument that the practices of holding one another responsible are ...
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Language Sciences, 1998
L'A. examine quelques unes des critiques adressees a N. Chomsky par P.F. Strawson en 1969-70 dans son ouvrage intitule Grammar and philosophy dans lequel il expose son projet d'ecrire une grammaire a la fois du point de vue du linguiste et du philosophe.
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L'A. examine quelques unes des critiques adressees a N. Chomsky par P.F. Strawson en 1969-70 dans son ouvrage intitule Grammar and philosophy dans lequel il expose son projet d'ecrire une grammaire a la fois du point de vue du linguiste et du philosophe.
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