Title Legal, moral, and metaphysical truths : the philosophy of Michael S. Moore / edited by Kimberly Kessler Ferzan and Stephen J. Morse

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 446 pages) Contents 1. Editors' introduction / Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Stephen J. Morse -- 2. Living with genius : the life and work of Michael S. Moore / Heidi M. Hurd -- 3. Modest retributivism / Mitchell N. Berman -- 4. What do criminals deserve? / Douglas Husak -- 5. Retributive desert as fair play / Peter Westen -- 6. The wrong and the free / Victor Tadros -- 7. Legal moralism and public wrongs / R.A. Duff -- 8. Moore in jeopardy, again / Gideon Yaffe -- 9. Do we need a doctrine of complicity? / Leo Katz -- 10. Reluctant pluralist : Moore on negligence / Kenneth W. Simons -- 11. Putting (and keeping) proximate cause in its place / John Oberdiek -- 12. Causation : metaphysics or intuition? / Richard W. Wright -- 13. The moral asymmetry between acts and omissions / Horacio Spector -- 14. Moore and the metaphysics of causation / Richard Fumerton -- 15. Self-defense : tell me Moore / Kimberly Kessler Ferzan -- 16. Moore on the mind / Stephen J. Morse -- 17. The means principle / Larry Alexander -- 18. Moral dilemmas and moral theory : toward a viable deontology / Phillip Montague -- 19. "Just no damned good" / Jeremy Waldron -- 20. Conceptual breakage and reconstruction : Michael S. Moore's natural law theory of interpretation / Michael H. Shapiro -- 21. Metaphysical realism and legal reasoning / Brian H. Bix -- 22. Law and the role of a judge / Leslie Green -- 23. Responses and appreciations / Michael S. Moore Summary Reviewing the work of legal philosopher Michael S. Moore, this volume examines how crimes ought to be defined, what justifies punishment, what moral commitments underlie the law, how our understanding of concepts such as causation impact law and morality, and how psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience relate to law Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-432) and indexes Notes English Online resource; title from PDF cover image (University press scholarship online, viewed August 1, 2016) Subject Moore, Michael S., 1943- SUBJECT Moore, Michael S., 1943- fast Subject Criminal law -- Philosophy Criminal law -- Philosophy Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law. Law. Form Electronic book Author Ferzan, Kimberly Kessler, 1971- editor. Morse, Stephen J., editor. ISBN 0191773069 9780191773068 0198703244 9780198703242

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