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19This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1979, given by Joel Feinberg, an American philosopher.
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15Action and responsibilityIn Max Black (ed.), Philosophy in America, Routledge. pp. 134--160. 1964.
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13Wollaston and His CriticsJournal of the History of Ideas 38 (2): 345-352. 1977.This article defends the ethical theory of william wollaston against the objections of hume and later writers who uncritically accepted hume's account of what wollaston said. I then argue that the true flaws in wollaston's view that all wrongdoing is false representing are that it cannot explain why some immoral acts are worse than others, And it presupposes antecedent moral principles of a different kind. I conclude that wollaston's theory, While failing as a general account of all immorality, …Read more
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1310. Harm to OthersIn John Martin Fischer (ed.), The Metaphysics of death, Stanford University Press. pp. 169-190. 1993.
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12AutonomyIn John Philip Christman (ed.), The Inner citadel: essays on individual autonomy, Oxford University Press. pp. 27--53. 1989.
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12The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 2: Offense to OthersOxford University Press USA. 1988.The second volume in Joel Feinberg's series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. Feinberg clarifies the concept of an "offended mental state" and further contrasts the concept of offense with harm. He also considers the law of nuisance as a model for statutes creating "morals offenses," showing its inadequacy as a model fo…Read more
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9Instigating the Unpredisposed: Bad Luck in Law and LifeIn Ruth Barcan Marcus, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Diana Raffman & Nicholas Asher (eds.), Modality, Morality, and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus, Cambridge University Press. pp. 152--173. 1995.
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9The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Harm to selfOxford University Press. 1984.These four volumes address the question of the kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens.
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9AbortionIn Tom L. Beauchamp & Tom Regan (eds.), Matters of Life and Death, Temple University Press. 1980.
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8The feminist case against pornographyIn Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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6Harm to Self: The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol. 3Law and Philosophy 7 (1): 107-122. 1988.
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5Harmless Wrongdoing: The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol. 4Law and Philosophy 7 (3): 395-404. 1988.
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4Offense to Others: The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol. 2Law and Philosophy 5 (1): 113-120. 1986.
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1Philosophy and the Human ConditionPrentice-Hall. 1980.Selections (with introductions) intended to introduce college students at all levels of sophistication to philosophical problems which grow naturally out of everyday concerns. Emphasis is on moral and social philosophy with which the student is presumed to be familiar: killing and rescuing, racial and sexual equality, liberty and its limitation, love and sexual behavior. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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1Concepts of PunishmentIn Gertrude Ezorsky (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment, Second Edition, State University of New York Press. pp. 1-34. 2015.
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Psychological EgoismIn Joel Feinberg & Russ Shafer-Landau (eds.), Reason and Responsibility, 16th edition, Cengage. pp. 561-574. 2017.
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Naturalism and Liberalism in the Philosophy of Ralph Barton PerryDissertation, University of Michigan. 1957.