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32Review of John Braithwaite and Philip Pettit: Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice (review)Ethics 102 (1): 173-175. 1991.
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31The fourth chapter of mill's utilitarianismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 48 (2). 1970.The arguments of the fourth chapter of 'utilitarianism' have been given considerable attention in recent years. the present article suggests that the major (and most controversial) part of the chapter is concerned not so much with the proof as with the kind of proof to which the principle of utility is susceptible. it is argued that the chapter progresses in an orderly manner to outline the kinds of considerations which would be necessary to show (a) that happiness is desirable as an end; (b) th…Read more
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27Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture: A Philosophical Analysis by Fritz Allhoff: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, pp. xii + 266, £22.50/us$35 (hardback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (2): 407-409. 2013.No abstract
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27Review of Joel Feinberg, Jules L. Coleman and Allen E. Buchanan: In Harm's Way: Essays in Honor of Joel Feinberg (review)Ethics 107 (1): 149-151. 1996.
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26Review of Simon Keller, The Limits of Loyalty (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (4). 2008.
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25Patriotism in the age of TrumpJournal of Social Philosophy 52 (3): 393-402. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 393-402, Fall 2021.
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23Private and Public Corruption (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.The book roots corruption in the idea of a departure from conventional standards, and thus offers an account not only of its corrosiveness but also of its malleability and controversiality. In the course of a broadranging exploration, it examines various links between private and public corruption, connecting the latter with other social and political structures.
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21Beyond Decriminalization: Ending the War on Drugs Requires Recasting Police Discretion through the Lens of a Public Health EthicAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (4): 41-44. 2021.Earp, Lewis, and Hart argue the pursuit of racial justice requires a summary end to the war on drugs. In surveying the racially disparate harms of an enforcement-oriented, punitive, and ulti...
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21Handled with Discretion: Ethical Issues in Police Decision Making (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1996.Criticisms of how police exercise their authority are neither new nor uncommon. Police officers have considerable power, and they often must draw on that power in complex and pressing circumstances. This collection of essays by fifteen leading specialists in ethics and criminal justice examines the nature of police discretion and its many varieties. The essays explore the kinds of judgment calls police officers frequently must make: When should they get involved? Whom should they watch? What con…Read more
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20Meaning and Morality: Essays on the Philosophy of Julius Kovesi, edited by Alan Tapper and T. Brian Mooney: Leiden and Boston: Routledge, 2012, pp. xii + 222, US$138 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (1): 202-205. 2016.
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20A Libertarian Response to Moral Diversity (review)Hastings Center Report 17 (1): 34. 1987.Book reviewed in this article: The Foundations of Bioethics. By H. Tristram Engelhardt.
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19Rights and Discretionary Power (review)International Journal of Applied Philosophy 3 (1): 93-100. 1986.
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17Forgiveness and UnconditionalityInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 35 (1): 83-96. 2021.If forgiveness is to be seen as a virtuous act, it must satisfy certain conditions. For many, those conditions are construed narrowly and must involve some change of heart on the part of the wrongdoer who is to be forgiven: remorse, apology, a willingness to provide recompense, and so forth. Such an account is usually characterized as one of conditional forgiveness. Others construe the conditions differently—not eschewing remorse and apology, but neither always requiring it—and see those conditi…Read more
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16PostscriptJournal of Philosophy of Education 7 (2). 1973.John Kleinig; Postscript 1, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 7, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 177–178, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1973.tb00479.
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15Civil rights and civil liberties: Videotaping the policeCriminal Justice Ethics 17 (1): 42. 1998.
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13The Possibility of Altruism (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 20 (n/a): 372-373. 1971.It is the old philosophical desire to provide compelling arguments for any man which lies at the heart of this book. It is the difficulty of satisfying this desire which has led in recent years to the resurrection of Kantian transcendentalism. In ethics this approach has received urgent impetus in the articles of A Phillips Griffiths. Nagel, apparently independently, follows somewhat similar lines, coming to somewhat similar conclusions.
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13Reason, Truth and God (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 20 (n/a): 369-371. 1971.The material for this book was originally presented as the Stanton Lectures in the Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge in 1963. Its argument operates on a number of levels. Superficially, though explicitly, it is a defence of Wittgenstein and his followers against two charges, first, of ignoring the larger questions of epistemology discussed by their predecessors, and second, of removing philosophy from any concern with the practical issues of life. On another level it gives a commentary on the …Read more
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13IntroductionCriminal Justice Ethics 30 (1): 68-68. 2011.A year ago, Criminal Justice Ethics published Don Scheid's “Indefinite Detention of Mega-terrorists in the War on Terror.”1 The problem with which it dealt has not disappeared with the Obama admini...
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13IntroductionCriminal Justice Ethics 28 (1): 25-26. 2009.For what kinds of conduct may we impose on people the condemnatory sanction of legal punishment? Or, what may be viewed as its echo, what kinds of behavior may we legitimately criminalize? For it m...
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)Retired faculty
New York City, New York, United States of America
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