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22Of Normal Human Sympathies and Clear Consciences: Comments on Hyman Gross’s Crime and Punishment: A Concise Moral CritiqueCriminal Law and Philosophy 10 (1): 91-108. 2016.Contemporary criminal justice systems are extraordinarily unfair. Focusing on Hyman Gross’s Crimes and Punishment: A Concise Moral Critique, however, I identify ways in which scholarly criticisms of these criminal justice systems tend to miss their target. In particular, I argue against the assumption that in order to criticize these criminal justice systems we need to cast doubt on the very practice of blaming people and on the notion of desert, or that we need to reject wholesale retributive r…Read more
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3Harry G. Frankfurt, Necessity, Volition, and Love Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (6): 414-415. 1999.
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28Jeffrey Blustein, Forgiveness and Remembrance:Remembering Wrongdoing in Personal and Public Life. Reviewed by Leo ZaibertSocial Theory and Practice 41 (3): 552-559. 2015.
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167On Forgiveness and the Deliberate Refusal to Punish: Reiterating the DifferencesJournal of Moral Philosophy 9 (1): 103-113. 2012.In a recent article in this journal Brandon Warmke argues against my account of forgiveness. I here offer answers to his objections, and suggest ways in which I think he has misinterpreted my views. This exchange with Warmke also gives me the opportunity to insist on my general thesis that it is advisable to study punishment and forgiveness together. It is precisely the conceptual proximity of these two phenomena which make my account of forgiveness uncommon, and which make it more promising tha…Read more
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Intentions, promises, and obligationsIn Barry Smith (ed.), John Searle, Cambridge University Press. pp. 53--84. 2003.
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10A Non-Aretaic Return to AristotleArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 97 (2): 235-250. 2011.This article criticizes the recent “aretaic-turn” in legal theory. Within Criminal law theory, the main concern of aretaic theorists is culpability, and their main source of inspiration is Aristotle’s virtue ethics. Too focused on Aristotle’s virtue ethics, however, aretaic theorists fail to consider Aristotle’s views on culpability proper. Aristotle himself did not turn to virtue ethics when he discussed culpability; and thus I suggest that Aristotle himself would have rejected the contemporary…Read more
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36Beyond Bad: Punishment Theory Meets the Problem of Evil1Midwest Studies in Philosophy 36 (1): 93-111. 2012.
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El PGC de Alan Gewirth: insuficiencia normativa del criterio de consistenciaApuntes Filosóficos 4 195-2010. unknown1994.
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51Punishment, Restitution, and the Marvelous Method of Directing the IntentionCriminal Justice Ethics 29 (1): 41-53. 2010.David Boonin, The Problem of Punishment. There are two reasons why David Boonin's recent book, The Problem of Punishment,1 offers me a unique oppor...
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