Date of Award
Summer 7-26-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Dr. Eddy Nahmias
Second Advisor
Dr. Andrew I. Cohen
Third Advisor
Dr. Daniel Weiskopf
Abstract
In his 1962 paper “Freedom and Resentment," Peter Strawson attempts to reconcile incompatibilism and compatibilism about moral responsibility and determinism. First, I present the error committed by the proponents of both these traditional views, which Strawson diagnoses as the source of their standoff, and the remedy Strawson offers to avoid the conflict. Second, I reconstruct the two arguments Strawson offers for a theory of moral responsibility that is based on his proposed remedy. Third, I present and respond to two proposed problems for the Strawsonian theory: moral luck and revisionism. I conclude with a summary of my defense of Strawsonian “expressivism” about moral responsibility, and offer suggestions for further research.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/3238434
Recommended Citation
Walker, Kyle, "Moral Responsibility "Expressivism," Luck, and Revision." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2012.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/3238434