The Objective Attitude
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4352085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamler Sommers (University of Minnesota Morris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 228 |
| Pages | 321-341 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.487.x |
| OpenAlex | W2082664345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 4 |
I aim to alleviate the pessimism with which some philosophers regard the ‘objective attitude’, thereby removing a particular obstacle which P.F. Strawson and others have placed in the way of more widespread scepticism about moral responsibility. First, I describe what I consider the objective attitude to be, and then address concerns about this raised by Susan Wolf. Next, I argue that aspects of certain attitudes commonly thought to be opposed to the objective attitude are in fact compatible with it. Finally, I examine the prospects of someone who wishes to adopt the objective attitude permanently. In response to philosophers who claim that this would be psychologically impossible, I argue that our commitment to attitudes that presuppose moral responsibility can soften and fade, often without our noticing it
Epistemology · Moral responsibility · Obstacle · Pessimism · Political science · Positive attitude · Skepticism · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
The unfreedom of assisted suicide
After Incompatibilism
Gratitude Without a Self
Desert and Dissociation
Strawson’s Inescapability Claim
The objective stance and the boundary problem
Incapacity, Inconceivability, and Two Types of Objectivity
The significance of skepticism
Blaming friends
How emphasizing responsibility practices favors compatibilism
Betting Against Compatibilism
Free love? On the relation between belief in free will, determinism, and passionate love
Seeing Responsibility
The power to make others worship
Relational Objectivity
Taking Free Will Skepticism Seriously
More Work for Hard Incompatibilism 1
Where Love and Resentment Meet
On repentance
Do the reactive attitudes justify public reason
Experimental Philosophy and Free Will
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |