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Norman O. Dahl, Practical Reason, Aristotle, and Weakness of Will (review)Philosophy in Review 5 159-161. 1985.
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Book Review: Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Law, edited by François Tanguay-Renaud & James Stribopoulos (review)Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 26 (1): 243-249. 2013.Professor John Gardner says on the jacket, “these essays – without exception insightful and penetrating – set a high standard for the rest of us to aspire to.” This collection of 15 essays by 16 Canadian authors originated in a conference at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. The majority of contributors are based in southern Ontario . Two are from western Canada , two from the UK and one from the US . The essays are arranged in three parts, the first being subdivided according to subject…Read more
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Book Review "The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia" (review)Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 14 (2): 275-281. 2001.This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive survey of philosophy of law. The articles cover every period of Western philosophy and every part of the globe. Every school and methodology of legal philosophy is detailed. There are ninety articles on individual thinkers in both the Anglo-American and European traditions. Every facet of law as a social institution, of criminal law, and of private law, is covered. Relevant political, moral, and epistemological issues are discussed. The general standard…Read more
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1Robert E. Gopdin and Philip Pettit, eds., Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (5): 333-335. 1998.
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Michael E. Bratman, Faces of Intention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency (review)Philosophy in Review 20 8-10. 2000.
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1The Limits of Criminal CulpabilityCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 25 (1): 159-175. 2012.The authors of Crime and Culpability hold a subjectivist theory of criminal culpability according to which the core concept in culpability is subjective recklessness, negligence is not culpable, and it is irrelevant to culpability whether or not a criminal act results in harm. I argue against these three theses and criticize the authors' views on the structure of criminal law, criminal defences, criminal attempts, and codification
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Book Review of John Gardner’s Offences and Defences: Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Criminal Law (review)Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 23 (1): 255-262. 2010.This volume contains eleven previously published essays on criminal law together with a new "Reply to Critics" by the Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, John Gardner. The principal themes of the essays, covering offences, defences, and punishment, are summarized in this review, which also highlights areas of controversy and various lines of criticism
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2Mary I. Bockover, ed., Rules, Rituals, and Responsibility: Essays Dedicated to Herbert Fingarette Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (5): 313-314. 1992.