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Peter Strawson and Moral Responsibility | Guest Artem Besedin [S01:E73]

22 October, 2023

Artem Besedin in the Insolarance Cult podcast


Peter Strawson was an analytical philosopher of everyday language who had a decisive influence on the modern debate about moral responsibility. His idea was to analyze responsibility through the concept of responsive or reactive attitudes, which are reactions to certain actions. Since philosophers usually come to the topic of moral responsibility not from ethics, but from the discussion of free will, then Stroson argued that determinism does not exclude responsibility. We talk about this and many other things with Artem Besedin. 

Timecodes:

00:00 How does the question of moral responsibility arise?
4:21 Does moral responsibility depend on society and in what ways?
9:57 Descriptive Metaphysics by Peter Strawson 
11:54 Jet installations by Storoson
13:40 Methodology for finding excuses
16:01 Two conditions of moral responsibility: control and knowledge
17:08 Instrumental attitude to other people and objective attitudes 
21:34 About the example of upbringing
23:47 About the degree of moral responsibility and responses  
28:03 Does determinism remove moral responsibility? Are objective attitudes applicable to people?
31:29 Is it reprehensible to use an objective attitude?
34:12 The connection between the theory of Strawson and psychology 
37:31 Are there reciprocal attitudes in animals? Naturalism in Morality
40:44 Moral responsibility in the History of Philosophy (Berkeley, Kant, Utilitarianism)
48:01 Moral luck and Strawson