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Character, punishment, and the liberal orderIn Alberto Masala & Jonathan Webber (eds.), From Personality to Virtue: Essays on the Philosophy of Character, Oxford University Press Uk. 2016.
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Censure, sanction and the moral psychology of resentment and punitivenessIn Antje du Bois-Pedain & Anthony E. Bottoms (eds.), Penal censure: engagements within and beyond desert theory, Hart Publishing. 2019.
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Moral education, skills of civility, and virtue in the public sphereIn James Arthur (ed.), Virtues in the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Civic Friendship and Duty, Routledge Press. 2018.
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13The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2016.The enormous financial cost of criminal justice has motivated increased scrutiny and recognition of the need for constructive change, but what of the ethical costs of current practices and policies? Moreover, if we seriously value the principles of liberal democracy then there is no question that the ethics of criminal justice are everybody’s business, concerns for the entire society. _The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics_ brings together international scholars to explore the most s…Read more
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332Powerful Qualities, Not Pure PowersThe Monist 94 (1): 81-102. 2011.I explore two accounts of properties within a dispositional essentialist (or causal powers) framework, the pure powers view and the powerful qualities view. I first attempt to clarify precisely what the pure powers view is, and then raise objections to it. I then present the powerful qualities view and, in order to avoid a common misconception, offer a restatement of it that I shall call the truthmaker view. I end by briefly defending the truthmaker view against objections.
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13This book offers an introduction to the philosophical issues of criminal justice ethics in a way suitable for students of criminology and criminal justice. It links philosophical concepts with empirical research in criminology and introduces criminal justice ethics, in the context of political and legal order.
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40Causal Powers (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, and abilities-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. This volume presents new work on the nature of causal powers, and their connections with other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind.
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9Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Saadia Gaon, Bahya Ibn Pakuda, and Moses MaimonidesOxford University Press. 2010.A detailed study of the moral philosophy of medieval Jewish thinkers Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides. Jon Jacobs emphasizes their distinctive contributions, emphasises the shared rational emphasis of their approach to Torah, and draws out resonances with contemporary moral philosophy.
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19Judaic Sources and Western Thought: Jerusalem's Enduring Presence (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.The essays in this volume bring into relief the distinctly Judaic origins of many of them and explicate how they remain valuable resources for moral and ...
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46Law, reason, and morality in medieval Jewish philosophy: [Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides]Oxford University Press. 2010.Jon Jacobs emphasises their distinctive contributions, emphasises the shared rational emphasis of their approach to Torah, and draws out resonances with ...
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134Dimensions of Moral Theory: An Introduction to Metaethics and Moral PsychologyWiley-Blackwell. 2002.A study of fundamental issues in metaethics and in moral psychology, surveying important approaches with an emphasis on the disputed status of moral value and the roles of cognition and sensibility. Coverage of the issues includes discussion of significant thinkers from antiquity to the present.
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17Cultural Renewal: Restoring the Liberal and Fine Arts by Authur Pontynen (review)Review of Metaphysics 68 (3): 673-675. 2015.
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46Metaethics and TeleologyReview of Metaphysics 55 (1). 2001.THERE IS AN IMPORTANT RESPECT in which virtue-centered ethical realism needs to be more Aristotelian than it is typically willing to admit. This concerns the way in which teleological considerations need to be more explicitly acknowledged. Reflection on moral phenomenology, discourse, and practice supports realism and also reveals that teleological considerations cannot be entirely disowned by it. The teleology is not a grand teleology, however; it is not the view that there is a unique perfecti…Read more
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41Why Is Virtue Naturally Pleasing?Review of Metaphysics 49 (1): 21-48. 1995.A great deal is compressed into this passage; pleasure is associated in important ways with our nature; it has a crucial role in moral education; we can be pleased and displeased correctly or incorrectly, and this has a place in making character; and pleasure is something that matters all through a human life. Some of the themes are introduced and discussed at earlier places in the Ethics; some receive fuller treatment in book 10. The idea that some things are naturally pleasant and that the vir…Read more
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ConclusionIn Dimensions of Moral Theory, Blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments.
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241Emergent individualsPhilosophical Quarterly 53 (213): 540-555. 2003.We explain the thesis that human mental states are ontologically emergent aspects of a fundamentally biological organism. We then explore the consequences of this thesis for the identity of a human person over time. As these consequences are not obviously independent of one's general ontology of objects and their properties, we consider four such accounts: transcendent universals, kind-Aristotelianism, immanent universals, and tropes. We suggest there are reasons for emergentists to favor the l…Read more
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42Moral Imagination, Objectivity, and Practical WisdomInternational Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1): 23-37. 1991.
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8Note From the EditorCriminal Justice Ethics 32 (1): 19-19. 2013.Gordon Lloyd's article takes up issues of constitutional interpretation by the Supreme Court, examining the arguments in some key, early Court decisions. The discussion does not address criminal ju...
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24The Liberal Polity, Criminal Sanction, and Civil SocietyCriminal Justice Ethics 32 (3): 1-16. 2013.The article explores an intersection of moral psychology and political principles regarding criminal sanction. A liberal state cannot require that persons acquire certain states of character or lead certain specific kinds of lives; it cannot require virtue. Moreover, it would be wrong for the state to punish offenders in ways that damage their capacities for agency, and in ways that encourage vice. In the U.S. the terms and conditions of punishment often have deleterious effects on agential capa…Read more
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16Luck and retributionPhilosophy 74 (4): 535-555. 1999.The main claims are the following. If we keep before us the distinction between the justification of punishment and its aims, we see that retribution is not an aim of punishment, and that there is a central place for retributivist considerations in the justification of punishment. Justifications based upon aims or consequentialist considerations suffer from a serious epistemic vulnerability not shared by retributivism. There are ethically sound sentiments that underwrite retributivist justificat…Read more
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29Friendship, Self-Love and KnowledgeAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1): 21-37. 1992.