The Nature of Punishment Revisited: Reply to Wringe

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23 (1):89-100 (2020)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This paper continues a debate about the following claim: an agent punishes someone only if she aims to harm him. In a series of papers, Bill Wringe argues that this claim is false, I criticize his arguments, and he replies. Here, I argue that his reply fails.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1007/s10677-019-10047-1

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

The Nature of Punishment: Reply to Wringe.Nathan Hanna - 2017 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20 (5):969-976.
Punishment, Jesters and Judges: a Response to Nathan Hanna.Bill Wringe - 2019 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (1):3-12.
Punishment, Judges and Jesters: A Reply to Nathan Hanna.Bill Wringe - forthcoming - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
Why Punish War Crimes? Victor’s Justice and Expressive Justifications of Punishment.Bill Wringe - 2005 - Law and Philosophy 25 (2):159-191.
Must Punishment Be Intended to Cause Suffering?Bill Wringe - 2013 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (4):863-877.
Collective Agents and Communicative Theories of Punishment.Bill Wringe - 2012 - Journal of Social Philosophy 43 (4):436-456.
It’s Only Natural: Legal Punishment and the Natural Right to Punish.Nathan Hanna - 2012 - Social Theory and Practice 38 (4):598-616.
Retributivism revisited.Nathan Hanna - 2014 - Philosophical Studies 167 (2):473-484.
Wringe, Bill. An Expressive Theory of Punishment.London: Macmillian, 2016. Pp. 186. $99.00.Katrina Sifferd - 2016 - Ethics 127 (1):319-323.
Punishment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation.Bill Wringe - 2016 - Philosophia 44 (4):1099-1124.
The passions of punishment.Nathan Hanna - 2009 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2):232-250.
Reply to Antony Flew.C. A. Wringe - 1979 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 13 (1):149-158.
Reply to Antony flew.C. A. Wringe - 1979 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 13 (1):149–158.
Rethinking expressive theories of punishment: why denunciation is a better bet than communication or pure expression.Bill Wringe - 2017 - Philosophical Studies 174 (3):681-708.
In Defence of Punishment and the Unified Theory of Punishment: A Reply.Thom Brooks - 2016 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 10 (3):629-638.

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-12-10

Downloads
347 (#58,283)

6 months
152 (#22,097)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Nathan Hanna
Drexel University

Citations of this work

Punitive intent.Nathan Hanna - 2022 - Philosophical Studies 179 (2):655 - 669.
Non‐paradigmatic punishments.Helen Brown Coverdale & Bill Wringe - 2022 - Philosophy Compass 17 (5):e12824.

Add more citations

References found in this work

The Problem of Punishment.David Boonin - 2008 - Cambridge University Press.
The Expressive Function of Punishment.Joel Feinberg - 1965 - The Monist 49 (3):397-423.
Well-Being.Roger Crisp - 2014 - In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA: The Metaphysics Research Lab.
Well-being.Roger Crisp - 2013 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

View all 23 references / Add more references