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17Crime and Punishment: Philosophic ExplorationsWadsworth Publishing Company. 1995.This is the only anthology that focuses exclusively on the two central issues in the philosophy of criminal law: (1) What kinds of behavior should society criminalize?; and (2) What should society do with those who engage in such behavior?
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22Controversies in Criminal Law: Philosophical Essays on Responsibility and Procedure (edited book)Westview Press. 1992.
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26Morality Without Foundations (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2): 486-488. 2001.For roughly the first half of this century, philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition who worked in metaethics tended to focus much of their energies on the analysis of moral language. However, like so much else, this way of doing things started to unravel in the 1960s. These days, moral philosophers are concerned to address much broader, more substantive issues having to do with how actual moral behavior, as well as normative theorizing about such behavior, can be fitted into our best overal…Read more
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24An Essay on Moral Responsibility, by Michael Zimmerman (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 713-716. 1991.
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17Some Reflections on the Difference between Positive and Negative DutiesTulane Studies in Philosophy 33 93-100. 1985.
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56ExploitationPhilosophical Review 107 (2): 296. 1998.Despite its title, Alan Wertheimer’s new book is not another tiresome exploration of Marxist economic theories. Indeed, there is virtually no extended discussion of Marxism at all, since Wertheimer believes that what is unique to that perspective is highly problematic, given that when Marxists simply assert that capitalists do exploit wage laborers they are appealing to “the ordinary notion that one party exploits another when it gets unfair and undeserved benefits from its transactions or relat…Read more
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28Vlastos and the new race course paradoxAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 54 (3). 1976.This Article does not have an abstract
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55Should the Law Distinguish Between Intention and (Mere) Foresight?Legal Theory 2 (4): 359-380. 1996.Philosophers have long debated whether there is a morally significant difference between acting with the intention of bringing about some state of affairs and acting with the mere awareness that that state of affairs will occur as an unintended side effect of what one is trying to achieve. This controversy is mirrored in the criminal law in a number of places, most notably with respect to the question of whether the mens rea for the crime of murder should require the intent to cause death or onl…Read more
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23Entrapment, Due Process and the Perils of" Pro-Active" Law EnforcementPublic Affairs Quarterly 13 (1): 1-25. 1999.
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48An Essay on Moral Responsibility, by Michael Zimmerman (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 713-716. 1991.
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80Some Reflections on the Difference between Positive and Negative DutiesTulane Studies in Philosophy 33 93-100. 1985.
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30Morality Without Foundations (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2): 486-488. 2001.
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77A theory of freedom: From the psychology to the politics of agency. Philip Pettit. New York: Oxford university press, 2001. Pp. 193. (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2). 2005.In his latest book, Philip Pettit begins with the apt observation that analyses of freedom in the context of human agency and the free will problem are typically kept separate from discussions of that concept in the political realm. This he regards as an unfortunate departure from the classical view that the psychological freedom of the agent and the political freedom of the citizen are intimately connected. Indeed, the book is a sustained argument for replacing this dichotomy with a single, com…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |