Howard Simmons

Moral Desert

A Critique

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the author critically explores the idea that we deserve to be praised or rewarded for good behavior and blamed or punished when we act badly, which seems central to everyone's moral deliberation and practices. Simmons considers the implications of his views for distributive justice and personal morality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780761850694
• ISBN-10: 0761850694
• Artikelnr.: 28968095

Autorenporträt

Howard Simmons studied philosophy and modern languages at The Queen's College, Oxford, and obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy at McMaster University. He is currently an adviser to secondary school teachers of philosophy for the British Philosophical Association and an editor with the PhilPapers database.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Part 2 1. Quandaries of Desert Chapter 3 1.1 Gary Hart and
the Selby Rail Disaster Chapter 4 1.2 Internalism versus externalism
Chapter 5 1.3 Further development of internalism Chapter 6 1.4 Further
problems with desert Chapter 7 1.5 Positive desert Part 8 2. The
Implications of Determinism Chapter 9 2.1 Determinism, 'hard' and 'soft'
Chapter 10 2.2 Frankfurst cases Chapter 11 2.3 Libertarianism Chapter 12
2.4 Determinism and morality Chapter 14 Notes Part 14 3. Retributivism
Chapter 15 3.1 Introduction Chapter 16 3.2 Retributivism: a first look
Chapter 17 3.3 Peter French and vengence theory Chapter 18 3.4 Corlett's
account: exposition Chapter 19 3.5 Corlett's account: critique Chapter 20
3.6 Negative Retributivism and some thought experiments Chapter 22 Notes
Part 22 4. A Utilitarian Approach to Punishment Chapter 23 4.1
Utilitarianism in general Chapter 24 4.2 The basic utilitarian arguments
Chapter 25 4.3 Objections to utilitarian punishment and responses Chapter
26 4.4 A return to desert? Chapter 28 Notes Part 28 5. Utilitarian
Punishment in Detail Chapter 29 5.1 Guiding principles Chapter 30 5.2 The
S-score algorithm Chapter 31 5.3 From S-scores to actual sentences Chapter
32 5.4 Case studies for the application of the algorithm Chapter 33 5.5
Exculpation Chapter 34 5.6 State Punishment within the family Chapter 35
5.7 Punishment within the family Part 37 6. Effort and Distributive Justice
Chapter 37 Notes Chapter 38 6.1 Introduction Chapter 39 6.2 Sher versus
Rawls Chapter 40 6.3 Distributive justice Chapter 42 Notes Part 42 7.
Morality and Blame Chapter 43 7.1 Hostility to wrongdoers Chapter 44 7.2
Sher on blame Part 46 8. Conclusion: Desert Skeptics in a vengeful world
Chapter 46 Notes Chapter 47 Notes Part 48 Appendix Part 49 References Part
50 Index