海外新书速递 | 《自由、怨恨与道德形而上学》

Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals

[1] 书籍信息

Pamela Hieronymi, Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals, Princeton University Press, May 2022.

[2] 作者简介

Pamela Hieronymi is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[3] 内容简介

P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper “Freedom and Resentment” is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting responses across multiple disciplines, from psychology to sociology. In Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals, Pamela Hieronymi closely reexamines Strawson’s paper and concludes that his argument has been underestimated and misunderstood.

Line by line, Hieronymi carefully untangles the complex strands of Strawson’s ideas. After elucidating his conception of moral responsibility and his division between “reactive” and “objective” responses to the actions and attitudes of others, Hieronymi turns to his central argument. Strawson argues that, because determinism is an entirely general thesis, true of everyone at all times, its truth does not undermine moral responsibility. Hieronymi finds the two common interpretations of this argument, “the simple Humean interpretation” and “the broadly Wittgensteinian interpretation,” both deficient. Drawing on Strawson’s wider work in logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics, Hieronymi concludes that his argument rests on an implicit, and previously overlooked, metaphysics of morals, one grounded in Strawson’s “social naturalism.” In the final chapter, she defends this naturalistic picture against objections.

Rigorous, concise, and insightful, Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals sheds new light on Strawson’s thinking and has profound implications for future work on free will, moral responsibility, and metaethics.

The book also features the complete text of Strawson’s “Freedom and Resentment.”

[4] 书籍目录

更多信息请参考：

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691233970/freedom-resentment-and-the-metaphysics-of-morals

（说明：本书信息编译自网上公开资料。欲购图书，请自行检索Amazon等海外网站。）

近期书讯