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11War and Border Crossings: Ethics When Cultures Clash (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.War and Border Crossings brings together renowned scholars to address some of the most pressing problems in public policy, international affairs, and the intercultural issues of our day. Contributors from widely varying disciplines discuss cross-cultural ethical issues and international topics ranging from American international policy and the invasion and occupation of Iraq to domestic topics such as immigration, the war on drugs, cross-cultural bioethics and ethical issues involving American I…Read more
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83. Rationality and the Fear of DeathIn John Martin Fischer (ed.), The Metaphysics of death, Stanford University Press. pp. 41-58. 1993.
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26Hume's Analogies in Treatise I and the CommentatorsJournal of the History of Philosophy 4 (2): 155-160. 1966.
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6Punishment. 1995.The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about how legal punishment can be morally justified. That is the central issue addressed by the contributors to this volume. All of the essays collected here have been published in the highly respected journal Philosophy & Public Affairs. Taken together, they o…Read more
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1Punishment, Forgiveness, and MercyIn Mark Hill & Norman Doe (eds.), Christianity and Criminal Law, Routledge. 2020.
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25Marxism and RetributionIn A. John Simmons, Marshall Cohen, Joshua Cohen & Charles R. Beitz (eds.), Punishment: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader, Princeton University Press. pp. 3-30. 1994.
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16Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2002.For psychologists and psychotherapists, the notion of forgiveness has been enjoying a substantial vogue. For their patients, it holds the promise of "moving on" and healing emotional wounds. The forgiveness of others - and of one's self - would seem to offer the kind of peace that psychotherapy alone has never been able to provide. In this volume, psychologist Sharon Lamb and philosopher Jeffrie Murphy argue that forgiveness has been accepted as a therapeutic strategy without serious, critical e…Read more
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9Reply to Susan BandesCriminal Justice Ethics 35 (3): 201-204. 2016.As is usually the case, Susan Bandes has written an engaging essay that gives us much to think about.1 Of course I do not agree with her that I have “asked the wrong question” in asking if the voca...
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28People We Hire as Executioners: Who Are They? Who Are We?Criminal Justice Ethics 35 (2): 87-99. 2016.Christopher Bennett has introduced a new inquiry into the capital punishment debate by looking at whether the role of executioner is one in which it is possible and proper to take pride. He argues...
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12Reply to BennettCriminal Justice Ethics 36 (1): 117-119. 2017.Christopher Bennett closes his commentary on my article with the hope that he has “furthered the conversation” on capital punishment. I believe that he did that in his original article and has done...
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Kant's Philosophy of Moral Right: A Critical Examination of its Teleological FoundationsDissertation, The University of Rochester. 1966.
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Cognitive And Moral Obstacles To ImputationJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 2. 1994.We often impute responsibility to others for the purpose of retributive punishment - sometimes hoping that they receive the level of suffering proportional to what Kant calls their "inner wickedness". But do we know enough to do this without reckless error? Are we morally pure enough to do this without hypocrisy? The present essay explores these two questions. Oftmals rechnen wir anderen Verantwortlichkeit zu, um durch Strafe Vergeltung zu üben - und dies manchmal in der Hoffnung, daß ihnen gera…Read more
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25Retribution, Justice, And Therapy: Essays in the Philosophy of LawSpringer Verlag. 1979.One might legitimately ask what reasons other than vanity could prompt an author to issue a collection of his previously published essays. The best reason, I think, is the belief that the essays hang together in such a way that, as a book, they produce a whole which is in a sense greater than the sum of its parts. When this happens, as I hope it does in the present case, it is because the essays pursue related themes in such a way that, together, they at least form a start toward the development…Read more
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8An introduction to moral and social philosophyWadsworth Pub. Co.. 1973.Plato. Crito.--Mill, J. S. Utilitarianism.--Rawls, J. Two concepts of rules.--Kant, I. Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals.--Rawls, J. Justice as fairness.--Benn, S. I. and Peters, R. S. Society and types of social regulation.--Hobbes, T. Leviathan, abridged.--Hayek, F. A. The principles of a liberal social order.--Marx, K. Alienation and its overcoming in Communism.--Lukes, S. Alienation and anomie.--Garver, N. What violence is.--Zinn, H. The force of nonviolence.--Caudwell, C. P…Read more
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86The essays in this collection explore, from philosophical and religious perspectives, a variety of moral emotions and their relationship to punishment and condemnation or to decisions to lessen punishment or condemnation.
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133Jealousy, shame, and the rivalPhilosophical Studies 108 (1-2). 2002.This essay is a critique of the two chapters on jealousy in Jerome Neu's book A Tear is an Intellectual Thing. The rival — as anobject of both fear and hatred — is of central importance in romantic jealousy, but it is here argued that the role of the rival cannot be fully understood in Neu's account of jealousy and that shame (not noted by Neu) must be seen as central to the concept of jealousy if the role of the rival is to be fully understood.
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136Getting Even: The Role of the Victim: JEFFRIE G. MURPHYSocial Philosophy and Policy 7 (2): 209-225. 1990.Achilles is vindictive; he wants to get even with Agamemnon. Being so disposed, he sounds rather like many current crime victims who angrily complain that the American system of criminal justice will not allow them the satisfactions they rightfully seek. These victims often feel that their particular injuries are ignored while the system addresses itself to some abstract injury to the state or to the rule of law itself – a focus that appears to result in wrongdoers being treated with much greate…Read more
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