A concept of moral freedom that is in principle empirically inaccessible cannot do the normative work required by practical ethics, as P.F. Strawson's reactive-attitudes framework demonstrates.

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P.F. Strawson(as the author of 'Freedom and Resentment'): A 20th-century British philosopher famous for analyzing how we actually think and talk about everyday things like freedom and blame, rather than abstract theories.
Practical ethics(the field being discussed): The branch of philosophy focused on real-world moral questions—like what's right to do in actual situations—rather than abstract theory.
Reactive-attitudes framework(Strawson's key philosophical contribution): Strawson's theory that our natural emotional responses to people—whether we feel grateful, angry, or hurt by them—are what make morality and blame meaningful in practice.
empirically inaccessible(as used in epistemology and philosophy of science): Something that cannot be observed, measured, or tested through experience or scientific observation.

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