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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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73. 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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24Hume'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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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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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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Kant's Philosophy of Moral Right: A Critical Examination of its Teleological FoundationsDissertation, The University of Rochester. 1966.
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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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72Evolution, morality, and the meaning of lifeRowman & Littlefield. 1982.Based on a series of lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in October 1981. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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177Philosophy of law: an introduction to jurisprudenceWestview Press. 1990.In this revised edition, two distinguished philosophers have extended and strengthened the most authoritative text available on the philosophy of law and jurisprudence. While retaining their comprehensive coverage of classical and modern theory, Murphy and Coleman have added new discussions of the Critical Legal Studies movement and feminist jurisprudence, and they have strengthened their treatment of natural law theory, criminalization, and the law of torts. The chapter on law and economics rem…Read more
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50Another look at legal moralismEthics 77 (1): 50-56. 1966.The idea that immoral conduct ought to be criminalized is already often rejected, But not for precisely the right reasons. Victim-Less crimes ought to be decriminalized not (as h l a hart and j s mill argue) because it is immoral to make crimes of them, But because it is contrary to the nature of the criminal law itself. Acts of private immorality do not violate the rights of the participants; thus they cannot be crimes because there is no crime where there is no deprivation of rights. (staff)
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161Legal moralism and retribution revisitedCriminal Law and Philosophy 1 (1): 5-20. 2007.This is a slightly revised text of Jeffrie G. Murphyâs Presidential Address delivered to the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, in March 2006. In the essay the author reconsiders two positions he had previously defendedâthe liberal attack on legal moralism and robust versions of the retributive theory of punishmentâand now finds these positions much more vulnerable to legitimate attack than he had previously realized. In the first part of the essay, he argues that the us…Read more
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55Kantian Autonomy and Divine CommandsFaith and Philosophy 4 (3): 276-281. 1987.James Rachels has argued that a morally autonomous person (in Kant’s sense) could not consistently accept the authority of divine commands. Against Rachels, this essay argues (a) that the Kantian concept of moral autonomy is to be analyzed in terms of an agent’sresponsiveness to the best available moral reasons and (b) that it is simply question-begging against divine command theory to assume that such commands could not count as the best moral reasons available to an agent.
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