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    What is legal intervention in the family? Family law and family privacy
    Law and Philosophy 17 (2). 1998.
    The object of this article is to clarify the relationship between morality and family law in a variety of legal situations. This will give the reader a better grasp of the kind of case to be included in the traditionalist claim that the idea of legal intervention in the family is a coherent notion. Once this is sorted, we will be in a position to discuss and clarify the radical thesis that "the personal is political."
    Legal Authority and Obligation, Misc
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    The status of children in a liberal society (review)
    Law and Philosophy 15 (4): 431-436. 1996.
    Philosophy of Law
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    Malcolm on mind and the human form
    Mind 77 (308): 584-587. 1968.
    This paper is a critique of Norman Malcolm's claim that things that do not have the human form (e.g. trees, tables, computers) cannot' understand' or 'think' because they cannot point at, reach for, go to, look at, fetch or get something.
    Epistemology of MindPhilosophy of Action, Misc
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    Ignorantia Juris: A plea for justice
    Ethics 78 (1): 32-42. 1967.
    The author contends that none of the rationales for not allowing ignorance of the law as an excuse in criminal law cases is persuasive. The paper begins by analyzing the condition under which "reasonable" ignorance of the law ought to be allowed as an excuse. Second, the author indicates in greater detail the sense in which 'justice' requires that we recognize these conditions. Third, the author critically examines the arguments used by legal theorists for disregarding the claims of justice t…Read more
    Justice
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    Mistake in performance
    Mind 75 (298): 257-261. 1966.
    This paper is an analysis of the concept "Mistake in Performance," a phrase first coined by Miss Elizabeth Anscombe in her monograph On Intention. The author shows that examples of a mistake in performance are nothing but cases of ordinary mistakes of judgment. The only difference between the two is that in cases of mistake in performance the agent acts on the basis of an erroneous judgment, that is, he fails to do what he intended to do.
    Philosophy of Action, MiscObservation-Based Accounts of Self-Knowledge
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    Acts Owing to Ignorance
    Analysis 27 (1). 1966.
    Criticism of H.L.A. Hart's account of how the movements of a person during the performance of an act that is done by mistake or owing to ignorance are not uncontrolled or involuntary. movements.
    Knowledge of ActionIgnorance