Peter Strawson

2002 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Keyword(s):  
Peter Strawson

Towards a Social Conception of Persons

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bennett W. Helm
Keyword(s):  
Practical Rationality ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Peter Strawson ◽  
The One

This Chapter examines three sources of motivation for individualistic conceptions of persons (responsibility, identity, and practical rationality), all of which are in conceptual tension with the sorts of authority we can have over each other. We can relieve this tension in part by following Peter Strawson in understanding responsibility to depend on “human communities”—communities of respect by which we hold each other responsible to certain norms and so to certain practices or way of life. Yet the authority by which we hold others responsible presupposes the worth not only of the norms but also of the agent and the one holding her to those norms. We can understand such worth, it is suggested, in terms of communities of respect—in terms of its members’ joint respect for each other and for its norms and practices.

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 150 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, VI

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bernard Williams ◽  
Peter Strawson ◽  
Stuart Hampshire

This series features studies of the lives and works of some of Britain's foremost scholars. This volume of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the Academy: Peter Birks; William Frend; John Gallagher; Philip Grierson; Stuart Hampshire; William McKane; Sir Malcolm Pasley; Ben Pimlott; Robert Pring-Mill; John Stevens; Peter Strawson; Hugh Trevor-Roper; Sir William Wade; Alan Williams; Sir Bernard Williams; and John Wymer.

Strawson, Parfit and Impersonality

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-223
Author(s):  
Scoti Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Peter Strawson

It is thought by some philosophers that certain arguments developed by Peter Strawson in Individuals show that Derek Parfit's claim in Reasons and Persons that experiences can be referred to without referring to persons is incoherent. In this paper I argue that Parfit's claim is not threatened by these arguments.

scholarly journals ¿Las mujeres son más sensibles frente al maltrato animal? Experiencias entorno a la aplicación de la Ley 1774 desde 2016 hasta 2018

2018 ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Adriana Marcela Pérez Rodríguez ◽  
Cristian Matheo García Flórez ◽  
Jose Fernando Pérez Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Peter Strawson ◽  
Las Mujeres

La presente investigación intenta dar una justificación al aparente mayor interés que tienen las mujeres por los casos de maltrato animal en Colombia. Por medio del análisis estadístico de la información obtenidas de los usuarios del Consultorio Jurídico para la Protección de Animales no Humanos –Abogato-, y tomando como base las reflexiones teóricas que realizan en el contexto de la ‘sensibilidad moral’ todo esto esgrimido por Peter Strawson y Ernst Tugendhat.

Causa e explicação:Debate entre o mentalismo e o behaviorismo radical

1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Cameschi ◽  
Lorismario Ernesto Simonassi
Keyword(s):  
Peter Strawson

Para contextualizar o debate entre a visão mentalista tradicional e o behaviorismo radical acerca das concepções de causa e explicação no discurso coloquial e filosófico, o presente artigo revisa e comenta criticamente a teoria da ação de Peter Strawson, baseada em supostas ligações indissociáveis entre os conceitos de crença, atitude e desejo. Considerando que tais termos se referem a complexos processos comportamentais, tenta-se mostrar que eles podem ser concebidos como fenômenos naturais e que exprimem relações funcionais entre regras, comportamento operante e operações estabelecedoras.Comisso, busca-se desmontar a distinção de Strawson entre os conceitos de causa e explicação.Aênfase é que, para o behaviorismo radical, o fato crucial é que nas contingências que promovem o conhecimento, não há nada além de estímulos e respostas, posto que não incluem processos mediadores.

Interpretation, Comparison, and the History of Religions

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Richard B. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Ascetic Ideal ◽  
Peter Strawson ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of

This chapter critically examines the work of Jonathan Z. Smith and the Interpretive-Comparative Method for studying religion. It unpacks Smith’s ideas about theory and method and shows how they instantiate the guild’s ascetic ideal in the study of religion. It describes three signature ideas in his approach, noting in particular Smith’s silence about matters of purpose when theorizing about method. It then describes how he mobilizes his ideas in his treatment of the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana with the aim of overcoming incomprehension surrounding that event by invoking a method of interpretive and comparative reasoning. Drawing on the ideas of Peter Strawson, the chapter shows what a critical humanistic assessment of Jonestown would look like in contrast to Smith’s reading of them, focusing on the experience of indignation at injustice and the tragic loss of life at Jonestown.

Bad Blood

Hatred ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 87-114
Author(s):  
Berit Brogaard
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Moral Community ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Moral Vision ◽  
Reactive Attitude ◽  
Beneficial Role ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
Peter Strawson

In his landmark essay “Freedom and Resentment,” the philosopher Peter Strawson coined the term “reactive attitude” to refer to our emotional reactions to wrongdoing or acts of goodwill in the context of social relationships, such as your resentment toward a person who wronged you or gratitude toward a person who did you a favor. These emotional reactions, Strawson argued, are beneficial because they serve to uphold the standards of our moral community. Strawson didn’t take an official stance on whether hatred can perform a similar beneficial role. But subsequently, a number of thinkers have argued that it serves no worthwhile purpose. In terms of safeguarding our moral ideals, we are better off without it. Hate is frowned upon because of its close ties to vengeance. Vengeful hate is dehumanizing. But, this chapter argues, vengeance is not essential to hate. Without it, hate can be a gateway to moral vision.

Peter Strawson

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Peter Strawson

An interview with Professor Sir Peter Strawson

Cogito ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Edo Pivčević ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peter Strawson

An Intellectual Entertainment: A Dialogue on Mind and Body

Philosophy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-535
Author(s):  
P. M. S. Hacker
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Intellectual Abilities ◽  
Peter Strawson ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Mind

AbstractThis dialogue on the mind/body relation is a sequel to my dialogue ‘On the Nature of the Mind’, but can be read independently of it. The five disputants include an imaginary neuroscientist from California, an Oxford don from the 1950s, a lady, Peter Strawson and Alan White. They examine the peculiar idioms of having: having a body, having a mind, having a soul and having a self. To have a mind, it is concluded, is not to own anything, but to be able to do a variety of things: to reason from premises to conclusions; to act, think, and feel things for reasons. To have a body is to possess a variety of somatic characteristics. Hence a distinction is drawn between the body one is, and the body one has. Accordingly, the problem of the relation between my mind and my body simply disintegrates, since there can be no relation between my intellectual abilities and my somatic features.

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