Add to ORKGThe lack of free will in human experience causes clear problems for criminal punishment. Free will is a central assumption of retribution; without the free choice to tear the moral fabric of society, one’s actions cannot warrant that she receives punishment. For its invalidity and cost, retribution should not be used as a penological goal in the creation of laws or sentencing. Utilitarian goals, aimed at the social good, should be used in retribution’s place
While retributivism provides one of the main sources of justification for punishment within the crim...
I defend a deontological social contract justification of punishment for free will deniers. Even if...
Punishing wrongdoers is beneficial for group functioning, but can harm individual well-being. Buildi...
The lack of free will in human experience causes clear problems for criminal punishment. Free will i...
Most observers agree that free will is central to our practices of blaming and punishment. Yet the c...
The concept of free will is a problematic basis for assessing legal accountability. First of all, fr...
Do recent results in neuroscience and psychology that portray our choices as predetermined threaten ...
This Article notes that increasing numbers of scholars have argued that if we were to minimize our c...
"Free will skepticism refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that human...
Herbert Morris argues in his influential retributivist paper, Persons and Punishment, that crimina...
When I worked for the Manhattan District Attorney\u27s Office in the early 1980s, criminal sentences...
Justifications for punishment are generally grounded in retribution or consequentialism. Retribution...
Punishing criminals involves more than visiting unwelcome experiences–the rack, the gallows, confine...
If free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, then reducing these beliefs shoul...
Shaun Nichols has proposed a useful distinction regarding three different projects in the inquiry of...
While retributivism provides one of the main sources of justification for punishment within the crim...
I defend a deontological social contract justification of punishment for free will deniers. Even if...
Punishing wrongdoers is beneficial for group functioning, but can harm individual well-being. Buildi...
The lack of free will in human experience causes clear problems for criminal punishment. Free will i...
Most observers agree that free will is central to our practices of blaming and punishment. Yet the c...
The concept of free will is a problematic basis for assessing legal accountability. First of all, fr...
Do recent results in neuroscience and psychology that portray our choices as predetermined threaten ...
This Article notes that increasing numbers of scholars have argued that if we were to minimize our c...
"Free will skepticism refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that human...
Herbert Morris argues in his influential retributivist paper, Persons and Punishment, that crimina...
When I worked for the Manhattan District Attorney\u27s Office in the early 1980s, criminal sentences...
Justifications for punishment are generally grounded in retribution or consequentialism. Retribution...
Punishing criminals involves more than visiting unwelcome experiences–the rack, the gallows, confine...
If free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, then reducing these beliefs shoul...
Shaun Nichols has proposed a useful distinction regarding three different projects in the inquiry of...
While retributivism provides one of the main sources of justification for punishment within the crim...
I defend a deontological social contract justification of punishment for free will deniers. Even if...
Punishing wrongdoers is beneficial for group functioning, but can harm individual well-being. Buildi...