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10War 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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15Before 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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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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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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Kant's Philosophy of Moral Right: A Critical Examination of its Teleological FoundationsDissertation, The University of Rochester. 1966.
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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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59[Book review] forgiveness and mercy (review)Ethics 100 (2): 413-415. 1990.This book focuses on the degree to which certain moral and legal doctrines are rooted in specific passions that are then institutionalised in the form of criminal law. A philosophical analysis is developed of the following questions: when, if ever, should hatred be overcome by sympathy or compassion? What are forgiveness and mercy and to what degree do they require - both conceptually and morally - the overcoming of certain passions and the motivation by other passions? If forgiveness and mercy …Read more
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41A Failed Refutation and an Insufficiently Developed Insight in Hart’s Law, Liberty, and MoralityCriminal Law and Philosophy 7 (3): 419-434. 2013.H. L. A. Hart, in his classic book Law, Liberty, and Morality, is unsuccessful in arguing that James Fitzjames Stephen’s observations about the role of vice in criminal sentencing have no relevance to a more general defense of legal moralism. He does, however, have a very important insight about the special significance of sexual liberty
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90Jean Hampton on immorality, self-hatred, and self-forgivenessPhilosophical Studies 89 (2-3): 215-236. 1998.
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