Strawson's reactive attitudes account holds that moral responsibility is constituted by participation in interpersonal practices of holding responsible, not by metaphysical conditions about causal origins.
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# Strawson
Peter Strawson was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for challenging the traditional view that all meaningful statements must be either true or false. He argued that some statements—like "The present King of France is bald"—are neither true nor false because they fail to properly refer to anything that exists. His work fundamentally changed how philosophers think about language, meaning, and logic.
metaphysical conditions(as used in metaphysics)
The fundamental nature or basic facts about how something exists or works, rather than just how it appears.
moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)
reactive attitudes(Blame is given as the paradigm case of a reactive attitude)
Attitudes that agents have towards other agents in response to those agents' behavior