TY - JOUR N2 - The article presents Peter F. Strawson’s remarks on the free will debate, which he has presented in the essay ‘Freedom and Resentment’. Strawson avoids taking a stance on the question whether the thesis of determinism is correct. Instead he shows the essential difficulties and far reaching consequences of acknowledging this thesis. He recognizes the inseparable connection between freedom and responsibility in the philosophy after Kant. He consequently questions whether we really understand what it would mean to claim that determinism is true. He focuses on what he calls ‘reactiv attitudes’ triggered by the way in which other people behave toward us. Their behavior evokes emotional reaction in us – gratitude, respect, curiosity, but also distrust, resentment, disappointment. Those emotional responses are not purely subjective and they underlie moral judgments and complicated interpersonal relations. We suspend our reactive attitudes towards animals, very small children or people that we think are mentally ill. Instead we adopt objective (psychiatric, scientific) attitudes towards them. But to acknowledge the thesis of determinism implicates that we should treat all people this way. The paper is not so much concerned with an analysis of advantages and weak points of Strawson’s version of compatibilism, but focuses instead on the originality of his contribution to the debate on free will and on his brilliant treatment of reactive attitudes. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/114358/PDF/P.Filoz.%204-19%2026-K.Rychter.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/114358 PY - 2019 IS - No 4 EP - 433 DO - 10.24425/pfns.2019.130936 KW - free will KW - reactive attitudes KW - freedom KW - responsibility KW - emotions KW - P.F. Strawson KW - compatibilism A1 - Rychter, Karolina PB - Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN PB - Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego DA - 2020.01.13 T1 - P.F. Strawson on free will, responsibility and emotions in interpersonal relations SP - 425 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/114358 T2 - Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria ER -