In Harm's Way: Essays in Honor of Joel Feinberg

by Edited by Jules L. Coleman , Allen Buchanan

• ISBN13: 9780521038713
• ISBN10: 0521038715
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

For several decades the work of Joel Feinberg has been the most influential in legal, political, and social philosophy in the English-speaking world. This volume honors that body of work by presenting fifteen original essays, many of them by leading legal and political philosophers, that explore the problems that have engaged Feinberg over the years. Among the topics covered are issues of autonomy, responsibility, and liability. It will be a collection of interest to anyone working in moral, legal, or political philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface

Contributors

Liberalism and group rights

The argument from liberty

Autonomy and preference formation

Critical analysis and constructive interpretation

Liberalism, free speech and justice for minorities

Liberalism and the new skeptics

Tort liability and the limits of corrective justice

Liberalism, retribution and criminality

Responsibility for consequences

Some ruminations on women, violence and the criminal law

Force, consent and the reasonable women

Self-defense

Letting patients die: legal and moral reflections

Fetal-maternal conflicts

Benign and malign morality

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