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    Ethics.Piers Benn - 1997 - Routledge.
    This introduction to ethics judiciously combines moral theory with applied ethics to give an opportunity for students to develop acute thinking About Ethical Matters.; The Author Begins Motivating A Concern For moral discourse by dispelling often met objections over relativism and subjectivity. interweaving normative and meta-ethical considerations, a convincing modern account of moral thinking emerges.; Moral theories - consequentialism, Kantianism, contractualism - are explained and illustrated in a way that holds the reader's attention, and students of ethics will take away (...)
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    Forgiveness and Loyalty.Piers Benn - 1996 - Philosophy 71 (277):369 - 383.
    Contemporary moral philosophy rightly gives an important place not only to theories of right action, but to the nature and value of our interpersonal moral attitudes, including such reactions as resentment, admiration and forgiveness. Whilst these concerns have always been of interest to theologians and psychologists, their philosophical importance partly derives from wider concerns about the nature of persons. The recent resurgence, for instance, of retributivist theories of punishment, which are finding favour among many philosophical writers, largely bases itself on (...)
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    Ethics.Piers Benn & T. D. J. Chappell - 1997 - Philosophical Quarterly 50 (200):410-412.
    In this engaged and engaging survey Piers Benn examines the major currents of ethical theory, concentrating on sound reasoning about morality. Benn's account offers a qualified defence of Aristotelian virtue theory, while bringing out what is distinctive and valuable in a broad range of approaches, such as those of Kant and the Utilitarians. His examples emphasize the ordinary choices of everyday life - gossip, friendship, honesty, sexual relations, work, and self-realization.
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    Medicine, lies and deceptions.Piers Benn - 2001 - Journal of Medical Ethics 27 (2):130-134.
    This article offers a qualified defence of the view that there is a moral difference between telling lies to one's patients, and deceiving them without lying. However, I take issue with certain arguments offered by Jennifer Jackson in support of the same conclusion. In particular, I challenge her claim that to deny that there is such a moral difference makes sense only within a utilitarian framework, and I cast doubt on the aptness of some of her examples of non-lying deception. (...)
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  5. Is sex morally special?Piers Benn - 1999 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 16 (3):235–245.
    This paper attempts to clarify what is, and is not, meant by claiming that special moral considerations apply to sexual behaviour that cannot apply to other areas of life. It then poses the problem by reference to virtue ethics, asking whether there are any virtues or vices specific to sex, which go beyond general considerations like justice and benevolence. This leads to a mostly sympathetic treatment of Scruton’s Aristotelian derivation of sexual morality, which stresses how some behaviour and fantasies are (...)
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    The Face of God. By Roger Scruton. . Pp. x + 186. Price £18.99.).Piers Benn - 2013 - Philosophical Quarterly 63 (253):819-821.
    The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 253, Page 819-821, October 2013.
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  7. Disease, Addiction and the Freedom to Resist.Piers Benn - 2007 - Philosophical Papers 36 (3):465-481.
    ‘Twelve Step' recovery programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous teach that an alcoholic, or other addict, has a disease, and needs to accept that she is ‘powerless' over her addiction before recovery can begin. However, the disease model of addiction has been criticised on the grounds that some addicts recover without external intervention. This critique is questionable, not because such recovery does not occur, but because many genuine diseases are self-limiting. However, the disease model is better criticised on other grounds. Central (...)
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    Freedom, resentment, and the psychopath.Piers Benn - 1999 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 6 (1):29-39.
    This paper discusses the moral responsibility of psychopaths for their anti-social actions. Starting from P. F. Strawson's discussion of our participant reactive attitudes, which stresses their indispensability for meaningful human relations, the paper contrasts a variety of "normal" wrongdoers with psychopaths. It suggests that the latter are often seriously deficient in their capacity to entertain these attitudes, and that their resulting lack of proper self-evaluation may explain both their callousness and their imprudence. It is then argued that only creatures able (...)
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    Permissible Killing, by Suzanne Uniacke.Piers Benn - 1995 - Philosophical Quarterly 45 (181):550.
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  10. Cancel Culture.Piers Benn - 2021 - The Philosophers' Magazine 95:75-81.
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  11. The role of conscience in medical ethics.Piers Benn - 2005 - In Nafsika Athanassoulis (ed.), Philosophical reflections on medical ethics. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
     
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    My Own Death.Piers Benn - 1993 - The Monist 76 (2):235-251.
    It has often been thought that there is a special difficulty involved in conceiving of one’s own death. It is easy to think that, while one can easily conceive of, and acknowledge, the death of another person, one cannot ever conceive of what it is for oneself to die. Various things have been inferred from this. The most extreme inference is that one’s own death, or, to be more precise, one’s own non-existence, is actually impossible, since what is inconceivable is (...)
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    Participant Reactive Attitudes and the Puzzle of Free Will.Piers Benn - 2022 - The Philosophers' Magazine 97:66-73.
  14. The gay marriage debate – afterthoughts.Piers Benn - 2014 - Think 13 (36):23-31.
    This article analyses some familiar arguments both for, and against, same-sex civil marriage. I argue that it is not enough to defend gay marriage by a simple appeal to equality, unless one addresses the view that same-sex marriage would be contrary to the objective nature and purpose of marriage. I illustrate the ways in which a stand-off is reached in discussions of this particular matter. I also suggest that there is a mystery about what the from a faithful relationship to (...)
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    AIDS and Sexual Morality.Piers Benn - 1992 - Philosophy Now 4:5-8.
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    Commitment.Piers Benn - 2011 - Routledge.
    Most of us care about certain people and things, and some of these concerns become personal commitments, involving our values, our relationships, our work and our religious or political stances. But what is commitement, and why should it matter? Is social commitment - for example, to the family - being eroded by individualism or ironic detachment? And how should we deal with the potential tension between devotion to a life-stance, and the doubts prompted by pursuit of rational integrity? In this (...)
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    Can Addicts Help It?Piers Benn - 2010 - Philosophy Now 80:17-20.
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    Dead fetuses and insulting displays.Piers Benn - 2004 - Think 2 (6):25-28.
    Piers Benn explores the moral ramifications of a recent court case involving the Pro-Life Alliance.
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  19. ETHICS Piers Benn.Piers Benn - 2003 - In John Shand (ed.), Fundamentals of Philosophy. New York: Routledge. pp. 94.
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    Health care ethics.Piers Benn - 2001 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 18 (2):197–199.
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    Is atheism a faith position?Piers Benn - 2006 - Think 5 (13):25-34.
    In a recent issue of Think , Brenda Watson suggested that atheism is also a ‘faith position’. Here, Piers Benn looks more closely at this often-made suggestion.
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    Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars.Piers Benn - 2020 - Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot.
    This book offer a sustained and vigorous defence of free expression and objective enquiry situated in the context of the current culture wars. In the spirit of J. S. Mill, it investigates objections to free expression and enquiry in relation to harm and offence, reaching classically liberal conclusions and with particular reference to recent controversies on university campuses. While accepting that the concept of harm is broader than than merely physical harm, the book implicitly offers a critique of objections to (...)
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    Miss B and Mrs Pretty.Piers Benn - 2002 - Think 1 (2):57-60.
    Piers Benn, lecturer in medical ethics at Imperial College, London, discusses two recent medical cases involving the so-called ‘right to die’ explaining how the cases differ legally and, perhaps, ethically.
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    Matthews's moral vision.Piers Benn - 1999 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 6 (4):317-319.
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    Moral Principles and Social Values.Piers Benn - 1988 - Philosophical Books 29 (3):165-166.
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    Morality, the unborn, and the open future.Piers Benn - 1998 - In Robin Le Poidevin (ed.), Questions of time and tense. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 207--220.
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    On Being Politically Incorrect.Piers Benn - 1992 - Philosophy Now 3:8-11.
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    Pornography, Degradation and Rhetoric.Piers Benn - 1993 - Cogito 7 (2):127-134.
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    Political theory.Piers Benn - 1994 - History of European Ideas 18 (3):448-449.
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    Remembering Antony Flew.Piers Benn, John Rogers & Rick Lewis - 2010 - Philosophy Now 79:41-43.
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    R.M. Hare.Piers Benn - 2002 - Philosophy Now 35:39-39.
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    Response to the Commentaries.Piers Benn - 1999 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 6 (1):57-58.
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    Sense and Sexual Harassment.Piers Benn - 1994 - Cogito 8 (2):135-141.
  34. Some uncertainties about agnosticism.Piers Benn - 1999 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 46 (3):171-188.
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    Soham, Widdecombe and the death penalty.Piers Benn - 2003 - Think 1 (3):83-86.
    The recent murder of two schoolgirls in Soham provoked calls for a return of the death penalty. Piers Benn examines the case for execution.
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    The Gentle and Easy Death.Piers Benn - 1993 - Philosophy Now 6:5-9.
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    The identity trap.Piers Benn - 2004 - The Philosophers' Magazine 25 (25):42-43.
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    The Shackles of Superstition.Piers Benn - 1994 - Philosophy Now 10:5-8.
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    Withholding Treatment from a Drug Addict: Poor Prognosis or Just Deserts?Piers Benn - 2013 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 22 (4):402-404.
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    The Responsibility of the Psychiatric Offender: Commentary on Ciocchetti.Piers Benn - 2003 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 10 (2):189-192.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 10.2 (2003) 189-192 [Access article in PDF] The Responsibility of the Psychopathic Offender:Commentary on Ciocchetti Piers Benn Christopher Ciocchetti has valuable things to say in his article. He takes as his starting point some common ground between his views and my own, especially about the importance of Strawsonian participant reactive attitudes to our understanding of psychopathy. But he proceeds to claim that the distinguishing feature (...)
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    Issue six• spring 2004.Adam Swift, Richard Swinburne, Frank Jackson, Piers Benn, Richard Double, Marilyn Mason, Roy Jackson, Michael Ruse, Alan Sidelle & Michael Bradie - 2009 - In David Papineau (ed.), Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 175003.
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  42. (1 other version)Ruling Passions. [REVIEW]Piers Benn - 2000 - Philosophy 75 (3):452-462.
     
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