Strawson shows that moral responsibility is grounded in interpersonal practices of holding agents accountable within the phenomenal social world, not in postulated supersensible agency.
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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.
Supersensible agency(what Strawson argues we don't need to assume)
The idea of free will or human agency that exists beyond what we can observe or measure—like an invisible, non-physical power to make genuine choices.
grounded in(whether distinctness or identity is explained by intrinsic features)
To be explained by or to have its reason or basis in something else—like how a tree being wet is grounded in (explained by) recent rain.
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)