Colloque

Co-reactive attitudes and the making of moral community

Victoria Mcgeer

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Victoria Mcgeer

Résumé de la communication

According to P.F.Strawson, the concepts and practices of holding responsible, as animated by reactive attitudes and emotions, do not presuppose libertarian free will but what I call co-reactivity: a sensitivity to the scaffolding structure of reactive emotions that is displayed by most human beings most of the time. Many contemporary cognitive theorists, while paying deference to Strawson, have reverted to the idea that a presumption of libertarian free will is essential to reactive practice. Some treat this presumption as a hopeless error, others as a necessary illusion. This divide between Strawsonians and non-Strawsonians has important research implications for cognitive psychology; but more important still, it has great significance for the theory and practice of corrective justice. The hopeless-error theorists will be drawn to a crude consequentialist view of punishment purged of individual blame, the necessary-illusion theorists to an equally crude retributivist view. By contrast, those of a Strawsonian bent should find themselves drawn to a novel restorative vision which pays due deference to the natural kinematics of reactive emotions.

Résumé du colloque

Nous tiendrons notre assemblée générale annuelle en marge du colloque, mais également nous offrirons un cocktail et un buffet à nos invités, après l’assemblée générale en début de soirée lors de l’avant dernière journée. Nous décernerons également un prix pour la meilleure communication étudiante (1er et 2e prix), attribué lors de cette soirée.