Property dualism and the merits of solutions to the mind-body problem: a reply to Strawson. Property Dualism and the Merits of Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem A Reply to Strawson

In strawson’s “Freedom and resentment”, the idea of the reactive attitudes is used to provide a corrective for an over-intellectualised picture of moral responsibility and of the moral life generally. but strawson also tells us that in reasoning with someone our attitude towards them must be reactive. taking up that thought, I suggest that strawson has provided us with a corrective for an over-...

In " Freedom and Resentment, " P.F. Strawson seeks to recast the ordinary debate about moral responsibility and accountability. His main opponent is the incompatibilist – someone who does not believe that the claim that free will exists and the claim that everything that occurs is causally determined are compatible. Strawson also offers a critique of the view that is held by a certain kind of c...

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. In this paper, we review the scheme of Strawson, note his concerns, and add some of our own. Ho...