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- Title
Avoiding Strawson's Crude Opposition: How to Straddle the Participant and Objective Stances.
- Authors
Campbell, Neil; Carty, Alexander
- Abstract
Commentators on P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes emphasize the opposition between the participant and objective attitudes. This tendency overlooks Strawson's attempt to mitigate what he saw as "a crude opposition" between these two perspectives. Strawson called attention to phenomena involving the "half-suspension" of reactive attitudes, or the "straddling" of the objective and participant stances in order to diminish this crudity. This has been largely ignored in the literature, and as a result, the phenomena that Strawson mentions are poorly understood. Drawing on the work in the philosophy of emotion by Amélie Rorty and a multidimensional account of the reactive attitudes, we provide a framework to explain how such a half-suspension is possible and highlight some of its more prominent features.
- Subjects
FREE will &; determinism; PHILOSOPHY of emotions; ATTITUDE (Psychology); RESPONSIBILITY
- Publication
Acta Analytica, 2024, Vol 39, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0353-5150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12136-023-00552-5