Free Will, Punishment and Responsibility (Series Index)

Tweet

I've been blogging a lot recently on the philosophy of responsibility, punishment and, to a lesser extent, crime. Since I'm likely to continue addressing those topics in the coming weeks and months, I thought it was time to provide an index to all the posts I've written so far. I've divided them into three specific groups, but the divisions are far from pure. Anyway, you can expect this to grow somewhat in the near future.


1. Free Will and Moral Responsibility

• Free Will: a Conceptual Framework
• Who's Afraid of Determinism (Part One, Part Two, Part Three)
• Action, Responsibility and the Ability to do Otherwise (Part One, Part Two)
• Present Luck and Little Agents
• Fischer, Frankfurt and Flickers of Freedom (Part One, Part Two)
• The Frankfurt Counterexample Defended by Nucci
• List on Free Will and Determinism (Part One, Part Two)
• Waller's Argument Against Moral Responsibility (Part One, Part Two)
• Are hierarchical theories of free will and responsibility plausible?
• Freedom: Non-frustration, Non-interference and Non-domination (Part One, Part Two)
• Pereboom's Case for Hard Incompatibilism
• Did my brain make me do it? (Part one, Part Two)
• Psychopaths and Moral Responsibility: Empirical and Philosophical Issues

2. Theories of Punishment

• The Ethics of the Death Penalty
• Moore on Justifying Retributivism (Part One, Part Two)
• Theories of Desert
• Brooks on Retributivist Arguments Against the Death Penalty (Part One, Part Two)
• The Problem of Punishing the Innocent
• The Ethics of Pre-Punishment (Part One, Part Two, Part Three)
• Kramer on the Purgative Rationale for Capital Punishment (Part One, Part Two)
• Consequentialist Theories of Punishment (Part One, Part Two, Part Three)
• Is the death penalty irrevocable? (Part One, Part Two)
• Can death be a fitting punishment?
• Does the criminal law deter? (Part One, Part Two)
• Are we innate retributivists? Review of the Psychological Evidence
• The Psychology of Revenge: Biology, Evolution and Culture

3. Criminal Responsibility and Liability

• Madness, Badness and Neuroimaging-based Responsibility Assessments (Part One, Part Two, Part Three)
• Vincent's Structured Taxonomy of Responsibility Concepts
• Taking Responsibility vs. Being Morally Responsible
• Vincent on the Responsibility-Liability Gap
• Attempt Liability and Moral Luck (Part One, Part Two)
• Attempted Crimes and Changes of Mind
• Addiction and Responsibility (Part One, Part Two, Part Three)