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More details. All publications The second volume in Joel Feinberg's series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions.

Feinberg clarifies the concept of an "offended mental state" and further contrasts the concept of offense with harm. He also considers the law of nuisance as a model for statutes creating "morals offenses," showing its inadequacy as a model fo… Read more The second volume in Joel Feinberg's series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions.

He also considers the law of nuisance as a model for statutes creating "morals offenses," showing its inadequacy as a model for understanding "profound offenses," and discusses such issues as obscene words and social policy, pornography and the Constitution, and the differences between minor and profound offenses. This first volume in the four-volume series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law focuses on the "harm principle," the commonsense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation.

Feinberg presents a detailed analysis of the concept and definition of harm and applies it to a host of practical and theoretical issues, showing how the harm principle must be interpreted if it is to be a plausible guide to the lawmaker. Harm to Self with Donald Vandeveer.

Ethics 98 3 : Value Theory. Harmless Wrongdoing, Vol. Freedom and Fulfillment: Philosophical Essays. Reprint with Carl Wellman. Philosophical Review 3 : This is a third volume of philosophical essays by Joel Feinberg. It exemplifies the clear and elegant formulation, useful conceptual distinctions, perceptive and imaginative insights, and powerful argument we have come to expect from him. Each of the first twelve essays deals with a problem of importance to moral philosophy and philosophy of law; the last two provide a preliminary taste of his projected inquiry into the absurd.

Although these essays are diverse, Feinberg informs us that this vol… Read more This is a third volume of philosophical essays by Joel Feinberg. German Philosophy. William James. Commentaries Journal of Value Inquiry 4 4 : Richard J. Arneson - - Legal Theory 11 3 The Harm Principle. Understanding Harm and its Moral Significance. Wrongful Life and the Counterfactual Element in Harming.

Joel Feinberg - - Social Philosophy and Policy 4 1 The Limits of the Harm Principle. Hamish Stewart - - Criminal Law and Philosophy 4 1 Gerhard Seher - - Criminal Law and Philosophy 8 1 Patrick Tomlin - - Ethics 2 Piers Norris Turner - - Ethics 2 Offense to Others.

Bernard Gert - - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 48 1 Mill's Harm Principle as Social Justice. Added to PP index Total views 9 , of 2,, Recent downloads 6 months 8 82, of 2,, How can I increase my downloads?

Sign in to use this feature. About us. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, April 3, at 2 p. Feinberg came to the UA in from Rockefeller University in New York when that school eliminated its philosophy department amid budget cuts. He became the philosophy department head at the UA in , and was among the first nine Regents' Professors named at the University of Arizona in Feinberg already was one of the best-known philosophers in the world when he arrived at the UA, said Ronald Milo, a professor emeritus of philosophy who was on the UA faculty at the time.

He published widely on moral issues such as capital punishment, the treatment of the mentally ill, civil disobedience and environmental ethics. At the same time Rockefeller closed its philosophy department, the UA was charging hard to build a reputation as a major research university.

Lehrer said hiring Feinberg set the UA philosophy department on a trajectory to become one of the best in the nation. Even in retirement, Feinberg mentored six graduate students toward their doctoral degrees.