The logic of excuses and the rationality of emotions

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-338

  Gardner, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/s10790-009-9181-9     Document Type: Article

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3. see also H.L.A. Hart, Legal Responsibility and Excuses" in Sidney Hook, ed., Determinism and Freedom in the Age of Modern Science (New York: University Institute of Philosophy, 1958).
4. See John Gardner "The Gist of Excuses" and "The Mark of Responsibility," in Offences and Defences (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
5. See Peter Westen, An Attitudinal Theory of Excuse," Law and Philosophy 25 (2006), pp. 348-350.
6. John Gardner "Reply to Critics," in Offences and Defences, pp. 256-258.
7. See John Gardner, "In Defence of Defences" and "Justifications and Reasons," in Gardner.
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12. See also Bart Gruzalski, "Parfit's Impact on Utilitarianism," Ethics 96 (1986).
13. See O.H. Green, "Is Love an Emotion?" in Roger Lamb, ed., Love Analyzed (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997);
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24. John Gardner, "Crime: in Proportion and in Perspective" in Gardner.
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28. Cf. John Broome, "Normative Requirements," Ratio 12 (1999).
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34. Ronald de Sousa, "Emotional Truth," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 76 (2002);
35. See also Mikko Salmela, "True Emotions," Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2006),
36. Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 46.
37. Michel Vaucaire and Charles Dumont, "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" (1956), Piaf rec. 1961.
38. See Williams, "Deciding to Believe," in Problems of the Self (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1973), pp. 147-151.
39. John Gardner and Timothy Macklem, "Reasons," in Jules Coleman and Scott Shapiro, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
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41. See John Gardner, "Introduction" in H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. xiii-xvii.
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45. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. III, s. 5, 1114a4-10.
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49. Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, p. 216.
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51. See Gordon, The Structure of Emotions, pp. 110-121.
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54. This article was written while I was on leave at Princeton University in Spring 2008 and at the Australian National University in Summer 2008. I would like to thank colleagues and students at both institutions for helpful criticisms and suggestions.