There are many contested features of P. F. Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment."But the feature most people reject is Strawson's responsedependent view of moral responsibility. 1 By leaning on our interpersonal responsibility responses (reactive attitudes such as resentment, indignation, and guilt) and what tends to suspend them in order to account for "all we mean, when, speaking the language of morals, we speak of desert, responsibility, guilt, condemnation, and justice" (Strawson 2003, 91; emphasis in original), Strawson maintains that being responsible is a I presented earlier versions of this essay at a Gothenburg Responsibility Project workshop and at the University of Arizona's Freedom Center.I am grateful to the insightful feedback provided by audience members at both presentations, including
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