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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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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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10Happiness and immoralityIn Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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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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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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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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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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4Retributive Hatred: an essay on criminal liability and the emotionsIn R. G. Frey & Christopher W. Morris (eds.), Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals, Cambridge University Press. pp. 360. 1991.
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2Repentance, Mercy, and Communicative PunishmentIn Rowan Cruft, Matthew H. Kramer & Mark R. Reiff (eds.), Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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2The Justice of EconomicsPhilosophical Topics 14 (2): 195-210. 1986.A critique of Richard Posner's suggestion that notions of economic efficiency can serve as ethical foundations.
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1Punishment, Forgiveness, and MercyIn Mark Hill & Norman Doe (eds.), Christianity and Criminal Law, Routledge. 2020.
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Legal Moralism and Retribution RevisitedProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80 (2): 45-62. 2006.
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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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Kant's Philosophy of Moral Right: A Critical Examination of its Teleological FoundationsDissertation, The University of Rochester. 1966.
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