Future of Punishment

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-977920-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy

Scholars are struggling to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences. This volume aims at providing philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and legal theorists with an opportunity to examine the cluster of related issues that will need to be addressed in light of these developments. Each of the twelve essays collected here sheds light on an issue essential to the future of punishment and retribution. In addition to exploring the sorts of issues traditionally discussed when it comes to free will and punishment, the volume also contains several chapters on the relevance (or lack thereof) of advances in the biosciences to our conceptions of agency and responsibility.

While some contributors defend the philosophical status quo, others advocate no less than a total revaluation of our fundamental beliefs about moral and legal responsibility. This volume exposes the reader to cutting-edge research on the thorny relationship between traditional theories of agency and responsibility and recent and future scientific advances pertaining to these topics. It also provides an introduction to some of the long-standing debates in action theory and the philosophy of law, which concern the justification of punishment more generally.

Zielgruppe

Philosophers and Legal Theorists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nadelhoffer, Thomas A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Defending Retributivism

- 1.: John Martin Fischer: Desert and the Justification of Punishment

- 2.: Shaun Nichols: Brute Retributivism

- Incompatibilism and Retributivism

- 3.: Derk Pereboom: Free Will Skepticism and Criminal Punishmen

- 4.: Michael Corrado: Why Do We Resist Hard Incompatibilism? Thoughts on Freedom and Punishment

- Compatibilism and Retributivism

- 5.: Stephen Morse: Criminal Common Law Compatibilism

- 6.: Pardo and Patterson: Neuroscience, Normativity, and Retributivism

- 7.: Nancey Murphy: Cognitive Neuroscience, Moral Responsibility, and Punishment

- Punishment and Folk Intuitions

- 8.: Alfred Mele: Free Will, Science, and Punishment

- 9.: Nadelhoffer et al: The Mind, the Brain, and the Law

- 10.: Aharoni and Fridlund: Moralistic Punishment as a Crude Social Insurance Plan

- The Scope of Justified Punishment

- 11.: Neil Levy: Punishing the Addict: Reflections on Gene Heyman

- 12.: Focquaert et al: Free Will, Responsibility, and the Punishment of Criminals

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas A. Nadelhoffer (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the College of Charleston. He specializes in the philosophy of mind and action, moral psychology, and the philosophy of law-which were the focus of his research during his time as a post-doctoral fellow with the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project. He also recently co-edited Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings (Wiley-Blackwell 2010) with Eddy Nahmias and Shaun Nichols.