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114On the Matter of Suffering: Derek Parfit and the Possibility of Deserved PunishmentCriminal Law and Philosophy 11 (1): 1-18. 2017.Derek Parfit has recently defended the view that no one can ever deserve to suffer. Were this view correct, its implications for the thorny problem of the justification of punishment would be extraordinary: age-old debates between consequentialists and retributivists would simply vanish, as punishment would only—and simply—be justifiable along Benthamite utilitarian lines. I here suggest that Parfit’s view is linked to uncharacteristically weak arguments, and that it ought to be rejected.
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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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El PGC de Alan Gewirth: insuficiencia normativa del criterio de consistenciaApuntes Filosóficos 4 195-2010. unknown1994.
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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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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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