Plato's Cave Ep. 2.10 - Moral Responsibility: Freedom and Resentment by P.F. Strawson

In this episode, I discuss P.F. Strawson's landmark paper on moral responsibility, Freedom and Resentment, and its posing challenges towards those who believe free will and determinism have anything to do with responsibility.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:
Strawson, Galen, 1994. “The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility,” Philosophical Studies, 75: 5–24.
Strawson, Galen, 1986. Freedom and Belief, New York: Oxford University Press.
Strawson, P. F., 1980. “Reply to Ayer and Bennett,” in van Stratten 1980.
Strawson, P. F., 1962. “Freedom and Resentment,” Proceedings of the British Academy, 48: 1–25. Reprinted in Fischer and Ravizza, 1993.

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[alessandradelvecchioruiz]

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his is really good, huge thanks from Venezuela!

[gretchenswartz]

Thank you for this! Made his works way more understandable and helped with my homework a ton! Well made too!

[maurobenitez]

Gracias. It really helps me. Tomorrow I have to give an exposition of this. Greetings from Argentina.

[Achilles]

Thank you for making a rather heavy and complex area of philosophy simple and easy to understand. It would be great if you could also do a video summarising Pamela Hieronymi's response to Strawson in "Freedom, Resentment and the Metaphysics of Morals".