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    Forgiveness and Mercy.Jeffrie G. Murphy & Jean Hampton - 1988 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book focuses on the degree to which certain moral and legal doctrines are rooted in specific passions that are then institutionalised in the form of criminal law. A philosophical analysis is developed of the following questions: when, if ever, should hatred be overcome by sympathy or compassion? What are forgiveness and mercy and to what degree do they require - both conceptually and morally - the overcoming of certain passions and the motivation by other passions? If forgiveness and mercy (...)
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    The Authority of Reason.Jean Hampton - 1998 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Richard Healey.
    This challenging and provocative book argues against much contemporary orthodoxy in philosophy and the social sciences by showing why objectivity in the domain of ethics is really no different from the objectivity of scientific knowledge. Many philosophers and social scientists have challenged the idea that we act for objectively authoritative reasons. Jean Hampton takes up the challenge by undermining two central assumptions of this contemporary orthodoxy: that one can understand instrumental reasons without appeal to objective authority, and that the adoption (...)
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    Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition.Jean Hampton - 1986 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This major study of Hobbes' political philosophy draws on recent developments in game and decision theory to explore whether the thrust of the argument in Leviathan, that it is in the interests of the people to create a ruler with absolute power, can be shown to be cogent. Professor Hampton has written a book of vital importance to political philosophers, political and social scientists, and intellectual historians.
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  4. (1 other version)The moral education theory of punishment.Jean Hampton - 1984 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 13 (3):208-238.
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  5. Selflessness and the loss of self.Jean Hampton - 1993 - Social Philosophy and Policy 10 (1):135-65.
    Sacrificing one's own interests in order to serve another is, in general, supposed to be a good thing, an example of altruism, the hallmark of morality, and something we should commend to (but not always require of) the entirely-too-selfish human beings of our society. But let me recount a story that I hope will persuade the reader to start questioning this conventional philosophical wisdom. Last year, a friend of mine was talking with me about a mutual acquaintance whose two sons (...)
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  6. Should political philosophy be done without metaphysics?Jean Hampton - 1989 - Ethics 99 (4):791-814.
    In this paper, The author discusses rawls's recent argument that the aim of political philosophy is not the pursuit of truth but of "free agreement, Reconciliation through public reason" designed to forge an "overlapping consensus." although the author is prepared to agree that political philosophy should sometimes have this goal, She maintains that there are metaphysical commitments about the nature of human beings underlying philosophy itself which commit the political philosophers to pursuing conditions of freedom and equal respect for all, (...)
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  7. Political philosophy.Jean Hampton - 1997 - Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
    Political philosophy, perhaps even more than other branches of philosophy, calls for constant renewal to reflect not just re-readings of the tradition but also the demands of current events. In this lively and readable survey, Jean Hampton has created a text for our time that does justice both to the great traditions of the field and to the newest developments. In a marvelous feat of synthesis, she links the classical tradition, the giants of the modern period, the dominant topics of (...)
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    Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition.Stephen L. Darwall & Jean Hampton - 1989 - Philosophical Review 98 (3):401.
  9. (1 other version)Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition.Jean Hampton & Gregory S. Kavka - 1987 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 16 (3):280-298.
  10. Does Hume Have an Instrumental Conception of Practical Reason?Jean Hampton - 1995 - Hume Studies 21 (1):57-74.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume Studies Volume XXI, Number 1, April 1995, pp. 57-74 Does Hume Have an Instrumental Conception of Practical Reason? JEAN HAMPTON Many philosophers and social scientists regard the instrumental theory of practical reason as highly plausible, and standardly credit David Hume as the first philosopher to formulate this conception of reason clearly. Yet I will argue in this paper that Hume does not advocate the instrumental conception of practical (...)
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    The Common Faith of Liberalism.Jean Hampton - 2017 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 75 (3-4):186-216.
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  12. Free-Rider Problems in the Production of Collective Goods.Jean Hampton - 1987 - Economics and Philosophy 3 (2):245.
    There has been a persistent tendency to identify what is called “the freerider problem” in the production of collective goods with the prisoner's dilemma. However, in this article I want to challenge that identification by presenting an analysis of what are in fact a variety of collective action problems in the production of collective goods. My strategy is not to consult any intuitions about what the free-rider problem is; rather I will be looking at the problematic game-theoretic structures of various (...)
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  13. Contracts and choices: Does Rawls have a social contract theory?Jean Hampton - 1980 - Journal of Philosophy 77 (6):315-338.
  14. The Failure of Expected-Utility Theory as a Theory of Reason.Jean Hampton - 1994 - Economics and Philosophy 10 (2):195.
    Expected-utility theory has been a popular and influential theory in philosophy, law, and the social sciences. While its original developers, von Neumann and Morgenstern, presented it as a purely predictive theory useful to the practitioners of economic science, many subsequent theorists, particularly those outside of economics, have come to endorse EU theory as providing us with a representation of reason. But precisely in what sense does EU theory portray reason? And does it do so successfully? There are two strikingly different (...)
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  15. The Idea of Democracy.David Copp, Jean Hampton & John E. Roemer - 1995 - Ethics 105 (2):425-426.
    In the wake of the recent expansion of democratic forms of government around the world, political theorists have begun to rethink the nature and justification of this form of government. The essays in this book address a variety of foundational questions about democracy: How effective is it? How stable can it be in a pluralist society? Does it deserve its current popularity? Can it successfully guide a socialist society?
     
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  16. (1 other version)Political Philosophy.Jean Hampton - 1998 - Philosophical Quarterly 48 (192):392-394.
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  17. The intrinsic worth of persons: contractarianism in moral and political philosophy.Jean Hampton (ed.) - 2006 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Contractarianism in some form has been at the center of recent debates in moral and political philosophy. Jean Hampton was one of the most gifted philosophers involved in these debates and provided both important criticisms of prominent contractarian theories plus powerful defenses and applications of the core ideas of contractarianism. In these essays, she brought her distinctive approach, animated by concern for the intrinsic worth of persons, to bear on topics such as guilt, punishment, self-respect, family relations, and the maintenance (...)
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  18. A new theory of retribution.Jean Hampton - 1991 - In R. G. Frey & Christopher W. Morris (eds.), Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 390--92.
     
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    Rethinking Reason.Jean Hampton - 1992 - American Philosophical Quarterly 29 (3):219 - 236.
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  20. Varieties of Feminist Liberalism.Anita Allen, Samantha Brennan, Drucilla Cornell, Ann Cudd, Jean Hampton, S. A. Lloyd, Linda McClain, Martha Nussbaum, Susan Okin & Patricia Smith (eds.) - 2004 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are 'incompatible.'.
     
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  21. Hobbes and ethical naturalism.Jean Hampton - 1992 - Philosophical Perspectives 6:333-353.
  22. The Wisdom of the Egoist: The Moral and Political Implications of Valuing the Self.Jean Hampton - 1997 - Social Philosophy and Policy 14 (1):21.
    There is a traditional understanding of what morality is, an under-standing that most contemporary moral philosophers take for granted. This understanding is not itself a theory, but rather an account of the phenomenon of morality, to which these philosophers have thought any theory of the phenomenon must conform if it is to be considered successful as either an explanation or a justification of our moral life. According to this account, there are three prominent features that, together, characterize the moral: First, (...)
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  23. The Nature of Immorality.Jean Hampton - 1989 - Social Philosophy and Policy 7 (1):22.
    This article is concerned with the nature of individual moral failure. This has not been a standard issue for exploration in moral philosophy, where questions surrounding moral success have been more popular: in particular, the questions “What is it to do the moral thing?” and “Why am I supposed to do the moral thing?” I want to change the subject and pursue answers to three importantly related questions about people's failure to be moral. First, I want to explore an issue (...)
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    [Book review] forgiveness and mercy. [REVIEW]Jeffrie G. Murphy & Jean Hampton - 1990 - Ethics 100 (2):413-415.
    This book focuses on the degree to which certain moral and legal doctrines are rooted in specific passions that are then institutionalised in the form of criminal law. A philosophical analysis is developed of the following questions: when, if ever, should hatred be overcome by sympathy or compassion? What are forgiveness and mercy and to what degree do they require - both conceptually and morally - the overcoming of certain passions and the motivation by other passions? If forgiveness and mercy (...)
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    The wisdom of the egoist: The moral and political implications of valuing the self*: Jean Hampton.Jean Hampton - 1997 - Social Philosophy and Policy 14 (1):21-51.
    There is a traditional understanding of what morality is, an under-standing that most contemporary moral philosophers take for granted. This understanding is not itself a theory, but rather an account of the phenomenon of morality, to which these philosophers have thought any theory of the phenomenon must conform if it is to be considered successful as either an explanation or a justification of our moral life. According to this account, there are three prominent features that, together, characterize the moral: First, (...)
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  26. Mensrea.Jean Hampton - 1990 - Social Philosophy and Policy 7 (2):1.
    Accusing, condemning, and avenging are part of our daily life. However, a review of many years of literature attempting to analyze our blaming practices suggests that we do not understand very well what we are doing when we judge people culpable for a wrong they have committed. Of course, everyone agrees that, for example, someone deserves censure and punishment when she is guilty of a wrong, and the law has traditionally looked for a mens rea, or “guilty mind,” in order (...)
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    The Idea of Democracy.David Copp, Jean Hampton & John E. Roemer (eds.) - 1993 - Cambridge University Press.
    In the wake of the recent expansion of democratic forms of government around the world, political theorists have begun to rethink the nature and justification of this form of government. The essays in this book address a variety of foundational questions about democracy: How effective is it? How stable can it be in a pluralist society? Does it deserve its current popularity? Can it successfully guide a socialist society?
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  28. Knowledge and Politics: Case Studies in the Relationship Between Epistemology and Political Philosophy. Edited by Marcelo Dascal & Ora Gruengardand.Marcelo Dascal, Ora Gruengard, Jean-Louis Labarrière, Jean Hampton, Don Herzog, Sergio Cremaschi, Richard H. Popkin, Stephen Holmes, Myriam Bienenstock, Robert Paul Wolff, John Elster, Gideon Freudenthal, Alastair Hannay, James E. Bohman, Harry Redner & Istvàn M. Fehér - 1989 - Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  29. Hobbes's state of war.Jean Hampton - 1985 - Topoi 4 (1):47-60.
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    The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.John Charvet, Joshua Cohen, David Gauthier, M. M. Goldsmith, Jean Hampton, Gregory S. Kavka, Patrick Riley, Arthur Ripstein & A. John Simmons (eds.) - 1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    This rich collection will introduce students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract political thinkers Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , and Jean-Jacques Rousseau . A dozen essays and book excerpts have been selected to guide students through the texts and to introduce them to current scholarly controversies surrounding the contractarian political theories of these three thinkers.
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    Contract and Consent.Jean Hampton - 1996 - In Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 478–492.
    Since the ancient Greeks, philosophers have often mounted arguments for political or moral conclusions by invoking the idea of a ‘social contract’, either between the people and the ruler, or among the people themselves, or both. The contractarian form of argument became popular in the seventeenth century, and its popularity continues to this day. Advocates of this approach tell us to resolve answers to moral and political issues by asking what a group of rational persons could all agree to, or, (...)
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    Cooperating and Contracting.Jean Hampton - 1991 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3):603-609.
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    Books in Review.Jean Hampton - 1991 - Political Theory 19 (1):112-115.
  34. (1 other version)Comments on Hobbes social-contract.Jean Hampton - 1988 - Noûs 22 (1):85-86.
     
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  35. (1 other version)Edward F. McClennen, Rationality and Dynamic Choice Reviewed by.Jean Hampton - 1991 - Philosophy in Review 11 (4):273-275.
     
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    Judging Justice: An Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy.Jean Hampton - 1982 - Philosophical Review 91 (4):645.
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    Naturalism and Moral Reasons.Jean Hampton - 1995 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 21 (sup1):107-133.
    Why are traditional ‘objectivist’ theories of morality, such as those put forward by Aristotle, or Kant, or even Bentham, commonly thought not to pass ‘scientific muster’ insofar as they are not ‘naturalist’? My interest in this question is based on my being a moral objectivist, but answering this question is one that moral skeptics should be as interested in as I. The view that the commitments of science preclude us from accepting such theories is the basis of the moral skeptic's (...)
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    O problema da justificação do estado.Jean Hampton - 2006 - Critica.
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  39. Thomas Hobbes.Jean Hampton - 1992 - In Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics. New York: Garland Publishing. pp. 543--549.
     
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    The Contractarian Explanation of the State.Jean Hampton - 1990 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 15 (1):344-371.
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    The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism, Jody Krauss, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 334 + ix pages.Jean Hampton - 1996 - Economics and Philosophy 12 (1):125.
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    Can We Agree on Morals? [REVIEW]Jean Hampton - 1988 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (2):331-355.
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    Review: Can We Agree on Morals? [REVIEW]Jean Hampton - 1988 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (2):331 - 355.
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    (1 other version)Book Review. [REVIEW]Jean Hampton - 1996 - Economics and Philosophy 12 (1):125-132.
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    Cement of Society by Jon Elster. [REVIEW]Jean Hampton - 1991 - Journal of Philosophy 88 (12):728-738.
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    Hobbes. [REVIEW]Jean Hampton - 1989 - Philosophical Review 98 (3):408-411.