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  1. The Apology Ritual: A Philosophical Theory of Punishment.Christopher Bennett - 2008 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and making amends. He argues that offenders have a 'right to be punished' - that it is part of taking an offender seriously as a member of a normatively demanding relationship that she is subject to retributive attitudes when she violates the demands of that relationship. However, while he claims that punishment and the retributive attitudes are the necessary (...)
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  2. The varieties of retributive experience.Christopher Bennett - 2002 - Philosophical Quarterly 52 (207):145-163.
    Retribution is often dismissed as augmenting the initial harm done, rather than ameliorating it. This criticism rests on a crude view of retribution. In our actual practice in informal situations and in the workings of the reactive (properly called 'retributive') sentiments, retribution is true to the gravity of wrongdoing, but does aim to ameliorate it. Through wrongdoing, offenders become alienated from the moral community: their actions place their commitment to its core values in doubt. We recognize this status in blaming, (...)
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    What Goes On When We Apologize?Christopher Bennett - 2022 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 23 (1).
    In this paper, I argue that our practice of giving and demanding apologies is rationalized by a belief that apologies make a difference to our normative situation. The characteristic normative effects of an apology are, I claim, that it removes an obligation on others to distance themselves from the wrongdoer, and that it makes the apologizer personally accountable to the addressee for their future compliance with the obligation they violated. However, if we ask what rationalizes that belief, two influential views (...)
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  4. Penal Disenfranchisement.Christopher Bennett - 2016 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 10 (3):411-425.
    This paper considers the justifiability of removing the right to vote from those convicted of crimes. Firstly, I consider the claim that the removal of the right to vote from prisoners is necessary as a practical matter to protect the democratic process from those who have shown themselves to be untrustworthy. Secondly, I look at the claim that offenders have broken the social contract and forfeited rights to participate in making law. And thirdly, I look at the claim that the (...)
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    The Problem of Expressive Action.Christopher Bennett - 2021 - Philosophy 96 (2):277-300.
    Rational explanation of action out of emotion faces a number of challenges. The Wrong Explanation Challenge says that explaining action out of emotion by reference to a purpose rather than an emotion gets it wrong. The Redundancy Challenge says that if explanation of an action by reference to emotion is sufficient then rational explanation is redundant. And the No Further Justification Challenge says that there is no more to say, at the level of rational explanation, about why people act as (...)
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    Should I get angry – or just take offence? A response to McTernan.Christopher Bennett - forthcoming - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
    This paper is a response to Emily McTernan’s book, Taking Offence. I focus on how to evaluate taking offence comparatively against alternative attitudes such as anger or blame. Drawing on some of my work on blame, emotion and expressive action, I sketch a way in which we might reach a more convincing answer than that provided by McTernan.
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  7. The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life.Linda Radzik, Christopher Bennett, Glen Pettigrove & George Sher - 2020 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    How do we punish others socially, and should we do so? In her 2018 Descartes Lectures for Tilburg University, Linda Radzik explores the informal methods ordinary people use to enforce moral norms, such as telling people off, boycotting businesses, and publicly shaming wrongdoers on social media. Over three lectures, Radzik develops an account of what social punishment is, why it is sometimes permissible, and when it must be withheld. She argues that the proper aim of social punishment is to put (...)
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  8. Personal and redemptive forgiveness.Christopher Bennett - 2003 - European Journal of Philosophy 11 (2):127–144.
    Some philosophers think that forgiveness should only be granted in response to the wrongdoer’s repentance, while others think that forgiveness can properly be given unconditionally. In this paper I show that both of these positions are partially correct. In redemptive forgiveness we wipe the wrong from the offender’s moral record. It is wrong to forgive redemptively in the absence of some atonement. Personal forgiveness, on the other hand, is granted when the victim overcomes inappropriate though humanly understandable feelings of hate (...)
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    Could There Be Expressive Reasons? A Sketch of A Theory.Christopher Bennett - 2022 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 30 (3):298-319.
    In pursuit of a theory of expressive reasons, I focus on the practical rationality of actions such as welcoming, thanking, congratulating, saluting – I label them ‘expressive actions.’ How should we understand the kinds of practical reasons that count in favour of expressive actions? This question is related to the question of how to understand non-instrumental fittingness-type reasons for emotion. Expressive actions often are and should be expressions of emotion. It seems to be an important feature of such actions that (...)
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    Complicity and Normative Control.Christopher Bennett - 2021 - The Monist 104 (2):182-194.
    : A distinctive nonconsequentialist argument for criminalisation and punishment claims that the citizens of a state that did not criminalise serious mala in se perpetrated in its jurisdiction would be complicit in their commission. However, one objection to such an argument is that such citizens cannot be complicit because they play no causal role in the commission of the offence. Against this objection, I argue that causal contribution is unnecessary, and that one way in which a secondary agent can become (...)
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  11. The Alteration Thesis: Forgiveness as a Normative Power.Christopher Bennett - 2006 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 46 (2):207-233.
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    Excuses, Justifications and the Normativity of Expressive Behaviour.Christopher Bennett - 2012 - Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32 (3):563-581.
    In this article, I look at the role of appeals to the emotions in criminal law defences. A position commonly held is that appeals to the emotions can excuse but cannot justify. However, we should be careful that this view does not rest on too simple and non-cognitive a view of the emotions. I contrast a simple picture, according to which action from emotion involves loss of rational control, with the more Aristotelian picture recently offered by RA Duff. I then (...)
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    How and why to express the emotions: A taxonomy of emotional expression with historical illustrations.Christopher Bennett - 2021 - Metaphilosophy 52 (5):513-529.
    Recent writing on the expression of emotion has explored the idea that there is a symbolic dimension to many “expressive actions.” This paper aims to situate and better understand the “symbolic expression” account by exploring its position in a framework of views from the history of philosophy regarding emotion, action out of emotion, and their place in the good human life. The paper discusses a number of competing views that can be found in this tradition, ranging from irrationalism, through irenicism, (...)
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    Taking the sincerity out of saying sorry: Restorative justice as ritual.Christopher Bennett - 2006 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2):127–143.
    abstract In this paper I take seriously von Hirsch's view that sanctions imposed on offenders need to be compatible with their dignity, and argue that some versions of restorative justice — notably that defended by Braithwaite — can put offenders in the humiliating position of having to make apologies that they do not believe in in order to avoid further bad consequences. Drawing on recent work by Duff I argue that this problem can be avoided by conceiving of restorative justice (...)
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    Desert and Dissociation.Christopher Bennett - 2024 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 10 (1):116-134.
    I argue against the idea of basic desert. I claim that the supposed normative force of desert considerations is better understood in terms of dissociation. The starting point is to note that an important strategy in spelling out the apparent normative force of desert considerations appeals to the idea of complicity. I argue that the idea of basic desert cannot give a good explanation of this connection. I propose that it is rather dissociation that is explanatorily basic. I further argue (...)
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    Love Among the Ruins: on the possibility of dialectical activity in paris, texas.Christopher Bennett - 2022 - Angelaki 27 (5):132-147.
    In this paper I give an interpretation of the Wim Wenders film, Paris, Texas, that brings to bear Talbot Brewer’s notion of “dialectical activity.” According to Brewer, dialectical activity is an a...
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    (1 other version)Is Amnesty an Act of Political Forgiveness?Christopher Bennett - 2003 - Contemporary Political Theory 2 (1):67-76.
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    (1 other version)State denunciation of crime.Christopher Bennett - 2006 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 3 (3):288-304.
    In this paper I am concerned with a problem for communicative theories of punishment. On such theories, punishment is justified at least in part as the authoritative censure or condemnation of crime. But is this compatible with a broadly liberal political outlook? For while liberalism is generally thought to take only a very limited interest in its citizens’ attitudes (seeing moral opinion as a matter of legitimate debate), the idea of state denunciation of crime seems precisely to be focused on (...)
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    The authority of moral oversight: On the legitimacy of criminal law.Christopher Bennett - 2019 - Legal Theory 25 (3):153-177.
    ABSTRACTAn influential view in recent philosophy of punishment is that the apparatus of criminal justice should be geared at least in part to state censure of wrongdoing. I argue that if it were to be so geared, such an apparatus would make ambitious claims to authority, and that the legitimacy of the relevant state would then depend on whether those claims can be vindicated. This paper looks first at what kind of authority is being claimed by this apparatus. The criminal (...)
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  20. (1 other version)What is This Thing Called Ethics?Christopher Bennett - 2010 - London: Routledge.
    What is morality? How do we define what is right and wrong? How does moral theory help us deal with ethical issues in the world around us? This second edition provides an engaging and stimulating introduction to philosophical thinking about morality. Christopher Bennett provides the reader with accessible examples of contemporary and relevant ethical problems, before looking at the main theoretical approaches and key philosophers associated with them. Topics covered include: life and death issues such as abortion and global poverty; (...)
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    The limits of mercy.Christopher Bennett - 2004 - Ratio 17 (1):1–11.
    Our characters are formed, at least in part, by forces beyond our control. Should this lead us to mitigate the responsibility of those who turn out badly? Martha Nussbaum argues that we ought to be merciful to wrongdoers on these grounds. Against Nussbaum, I argue that we have important moral reasons to treat people as responsible for character and hence to eschew mercy. Treating someone as responsible is required if we are to treat them as a moral agent, to treat (...)
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  22. Considering Capital Punishment as a Human Interaction.Christopher Bennett - 2013 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 7 (2):367-382.
    This paper contributes to the normative debate over capital punishment by looking at whether the role of executioner is one in which it is possible and proper to take pride. The answer to the latter question turns on the kind of justification the agent can give for what she does in carrying out the role. So our inquiry concerns whether the justifications available to an executioner could provide him with the kind of justification necessary for him to take pride in (...)
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  23. (4 other versions)Précis of" The apology ritual".Christopher Bennett - 2012 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):73-94.
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    Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative Power.Christopher Bennett, Paul Faulkner & Robert Stern - 2019 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40 (1):147-179.
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  25. Liberalism, autonomy and conjugal love.Christopher Bennett - 2003 - Res Publica 9 (3):285-301.
    This paper argues that a liberal state is justified in promoting relationships of conjugal love – the form of relationship that is the basis of the institution of marriage – on the grounds that they are essential to the development and maintenance of autonomy. A deep human need is that the detail of our lives be recognized (accepted, affirmed, granted importance) by others (or by an other). Autonomy can be compromised when this need is not met. So a state concerned (...)
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    Expression, Freedom of Speech and the State.Christopher Bennett - 2017 - Jurisprudence 8 (2):360-369.
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    (1 other version)Punishment.Christopher Bennett - 2004 - Philosophical Books 45 (4):324-334.
    How can a state be morally justified in punishing some of its citizens? In tackling this I shall set aside three important matters: we do not morally approve of all the laws of the land, so that sometimes there is a legal but not a moral case against an offender; we can do more things about crime than just punish the criminals, for example remedying the familial and social conditions that encourage it; and, thirdly, many actual penal institutions do things (...)
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    Rethinking Four Criticisms of Consequentialist Theories of Punishment.Christopher Bennett - 2022 - In Matthew C. Altman (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 171-194.
    Bennett focuses on four interconnected criticisms of consequentialist theories of punishment. The first criticism says that consequentialist theories wrongfully treat it as permissible to punish an innocent person if doing so will lead to optimal consequences. The second criticism says that consequentialist theories allow the treatment of offenders (and others) as mere means. The third criticism says that consequentialist theories fail to respect offenders as moral agents. The fourth criticism says that consequentialist theories recommend responses to wrongdoing that ignore or (...)
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    Recidivist Punishments: The Philosopher's View.Peter Asp, Christopher Bennett, Peter Cave, J. Angelo Corlett, Richard Dagger, Michael Davis, Anthony Ellis, Thomas S. Petersen, Julian V. Roberts & Torbjörn Tännsjö (eds.) - 2011 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Much has been written about recidivist punishments, particularly within the area of criminology. However there is a notorious lack of penal philosophical reflection on this issue. This book attempts to fill that gap by presenting the philosopher’s view on this matter as a way of furthering the debate on recidivist punishments.
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  30. Blame, remorse, mercy, forgiveness.Christopher Bennett - 2010 - In John Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics. New York: Routledge.
     
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  31. Replies to my commentators.Christopher Bennett - 2012 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (2):153-169.
     
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    Autonomy and conjugal love: A reply to Golash.Christopher Bennett - 2006 - Res Publica 12 (2):191-201.
    In my response to Golash I distinguish between two steps in my original argument. The first relates to the special value of conjugal (two-person) love relationships. I defend this step against criticisms, arguing that the two-person relationship provides a form of recognition that is of special importance to us and cannot be found in other sorts of relationship. The two-person relationship is one that, at least as private individuals, we have special reason to pursue. The second step concerns the claim (...)
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  33. Apology and reparation in a multicultural state.Christopher Bennett - 2007 - In Michael D. A. Freeman & Ross Harrison (eds.), Law and philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Actions, Institutions, and the Common Good.Christopher Bennett - 2011 - Criminal Justice Ethics 30 (2):205-212.
    Seumas Miller, The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions, 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-76794-1 hardback; 978-0-521-74439-3 paperback. If one were loo...
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    A theory of political obligation - by Margaret Gilbert.Christopher Bennett - 2008 - Philosophical Books 49 (4):390-392.
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    Communities at Work? The Concept of ‘Community’ in Organisational Analysis.Christopher Bennett, Michael Bennett & Stephen Bennett - 2005 - Philosophy of Management 5 (3):31-41.
    In this paper we assess the adequacy of the idea of community as an ideal-typical model against which real organisations and their management might be critically evaluated. Alasdair MacIntyre’s work on practices suggests that some forms of work activity require something more than contractual relationships within organisations: if he is right then perhaps we should acknowledge the importance of some notion of community at work. However, among the criticisms of the community approach are that it ignores issues of power and (...)
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    Considering Murphy on Human Executioners.Christopher Bennett - 2017 - Criminal Justice Ethics 36 (1):111-116.
    I am very grateful to Jeffrie Murphy for his response to my article1 and to Jonathan Jacobs for the chance to respond in turn to Murphy’s criticisms. It is a particular honor for me to respond to J...
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  38. Friendship and Marriage.Christopher Bennett - 2022 - In Diane Jeske (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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    Howard P Kainz, An Introduction to Hegel: The Stages of Modern Philosophy, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996, pp xi + 102.Christopher Bennett - 1997 - Hegel Bulletin 18 (2):43-45.
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  40. How should we argue for a censure theory of punishment?Christopher Bennett - 2019 - In Antje du Bois-Pedain & Anthony E. Bottoms (eds.), Penal censure: engagements within and beyond desert theory. New York: Hart Publishing.
     
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    Journal of Applied Philosophy.Christopher D. Bennett - 2014 - The Philosophers' Magazine 65:110-112.
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    L. Zaibert, Punishment and Retribution: Ashgate Publishing Co., Aldershot, 2006, Hardback £55, ISBN 978-0-7546-2389-2.Christopher Bennett - 2010 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 4 (1):105-107.
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    Making Amends: Atonement in Law, Morality and Politics.Christopher Bennett - 2011 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 8 (1):165-167.
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    McTaggart on the right to be punished.Christopher Bennett - 1998 - Hegel Bulletin 19 (1-2):85-96.
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    Michael Rosen, On Voluntary Servitude, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996, pp xi + 289.Christopher Bennett - 1997 - Hegel Bulletin 18 (2):60-64.
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    Review article: Forgiveness and the claims of retribution.Christopher Bennett - 2004 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 1 (1):89-101.
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    Satisfying the needs and interests of victims.Christopher Bennett - 2007 - In Gerry Johnstone & Daniel W. Van Ness (eds.), Handbook of Restorative Justice. Taylor & Francis. pp. 247--264.
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    The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics and Culture.Christopher Bennett - 2003 - Contemporary Political Theory 2 (2):255-257.
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    White (Coat) Lies: Bending the Truth to Stay Faithful to Patients.Christopher Bennett, Alex Finch & Stuart Rennie - 2016 - American Journal of Bioethics 16 (9):15-17.
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    A Problem Case for Public Reason.Christopher Bennett - 2003 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 6 (3):50-69.
    This essay is concerned with what I shall call the public reason constraint. The public reason constraint expresses the view that in public debate we have some duty of neutrality: the justification...
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