Victor Tadros
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Tadros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Tadros |
| SIGNATURE | TADROS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2017-6148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Responsibility and Desert
Generally, harm is bad. Is it always bad? Some retributivists—axiological retributivists—think not. They think that harm to people who are responsible for wrongdoing can be good, for they deserve it. In his excellent, intricate, and humane book, Michael McKenna defends a wimpy and qualified axiological retributivism. His retributivism is wimpy in that wrongdoers, on his view, only deserve proportional harm that arises from blame—the harms of havi…
The conditional value of autonomy
This paper is concerned with the conditional value of autonomy. It is valuable for a person to have acted autonomously, but only conditionally on the act performed. It is good for a person autonomously to pursue a noble deed, for example, and bad for a person autonomously to kill without justification. This paper rejects two familiar views of the conditional value of autonomy – that it is always worse for a person to autonomously do what is wrong…
Responding to Cultural Wrongs in Palestine and Israel
This chapter is focused on the historic Palestinian town of Lydda, which was more recently renamed Lod. It explores the cultural value that the town had prior to the Palestinians being driven out in 1948, drawing on the distinction between living and embedded culture and iconic and dead culture. It then investigates the obligations owed in the light of that culture by those who came to occupy the town after 1948—especially Moroccan Jews. It argue…
Refuge and Aid
Horrific scenes of needy migrants attempting to enter wealthy countries, often after expensive, arduous, and dangerous journeys, move many to believe that more such migrants should be permitted to enter and reside. But there are also horrific scenes of desperately needy people at a distance from wealthy countries—the distant needy—who are persecuted by their states, internally displaced due to armed conflict, or who suffer from preventable diseas…
The Rights and Wrongs of No‐Platforming
This article offers an account of no‐platforming, an investigation of the different considerations that determine why no‐platforming is wrong when it is, and how it might be justified. It suggests that no‐platforming can be wrong because it violates a person's right to a platform, or because it involves unjustified public denunciation. It then explores when no‐platforming is justified by exploring when a person might lose a right to a platform, a…
Beyond the Scope of Consent
When, why, and in what ways, do a person's errors have a bearing on whether they validly consent to another person's conduct
Two grounds of liability
This essay argues that culpability and responsibility are independent notions, even though some of the same facts make us both responsible and culpable. Responsibility for one’s conduct is grounded in the strength of the agential connection between oneself and one’s conduct. Culpability for one’s conduct is the vices that give rise to that conduct. It then argues that responsibility and culpability for causing a threat are each grounds of liabili…
Consent to Sex in an Unjust World
This article explores the moral significance of consent in an unjust world by developing the view that the validity of consent depends on its causes. It defends the view that the causes of consent make it valid or invalid. It then shows how this idea helps us to distinguish different ways in which consent might matter morally where it has problematic causes. Finally, it uses this analysis to explore the moral significance of a range of problemati…
Appropriate Normative Powers
A normative power is a power to alter rights and duties directly. This paper explores what it means to alter rights and duties directly. In the light of that, it examines the kind of argument that might support the existence of normative powers. Both simple and complex instrumentalist accounts of such powers are rejected, as is an approach to normative powers that is based on the existence of normative interests. An alternative is sketched, where…
Inheriting the Right of Return
This Article assesses one kind of argument for an intergenerational right of return in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict. The question is whether descendants of those who were made refugees in the 1948 War can acquire occupancy rights from their parents through inheritance and bequest over territory that they have never lived on. Standard arguments for their inheriting such rights fail for a range of reasons. However, a less familiar a…
Distributing Responsibility
A widespread view in moral, legal, and political philosophy, as well as in public discourse, is that responsibility makes a difference to the fair allocation or distribution of things that are valuable or disvaluable independently of responsibility. For example, the fairness of punishing a person for wrongdoing varies with her responsibility for wrongdoing; the fairness of requiring a person to pay compensation varies with her responsibility for …
Past Killings and Proportionality in War
This article builds on some arguments that I developed in the course of discussing Cécile Fabre's article, “War Exit,” on PEA Soup: http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2015/05/ethics-discussions-at-pea-soup-cecile-fabres-war-exit-with-critical-precis-by-helen-frowe.html. I am grateful to Cécile for helping me to develop my views. I am also grateful to the war discussion group at Oxford for their thoughts about an earlier draft. Thanks to Seth Laza…
Between Governance and Discipline
This article attempts to re-establish the importance of Foucault’s work for an understanding of the way in which modern law operates. This argument has two stages. Firsdy, there is a critique of the interpretation of Foucault’s work by legal and sociological thinkers. It is argued that by reading the term ‘juridical’ as synonymous with the term ‘law’ in Foucault, people miss the substance of Foucault’s argument. The term juridical describes an ar…
The persistence of the right of return
This article defends the right that Palestinians have to return to the territory governed by Israel. However, it does not defend the duty on Israel to permit return. Whether there is such a duty depends on whether the economic, social and security costs override that right. In order to defend the right of return, it is shown both that the current generation of Palestinians retain a significant interest in return, and that insofar as their interes…
Permissibility in a World of Wrongdoing
Wrongful Intentions without Closeness
Orwell's Battle with Brittain
Duty and Liability
In his recent book, Killing in War , Jeff McMahan sets out a number of conditions for a person to be liable to attack, provided the attack is used to avert an objectively unjust threat: (1) The threat, if realized, will wrongfully harm another; (2) the person is responsible for creating the threat; (3) killing the person is necessary to avert the threat, and (4) killing the person is a proportionate response to the threat. The present article foc…
The Ends of HarmThe Moral Foundations of Criminal Law
How can the brutal and costly enterprise of criminal punishment be justified? This text makes a contribution to the philosophical literature and debate on the morality of punishing, arguing that punishment is justified in the duties that offenders incur as a result of their wrongdoing.
Poverty and Criminal Responsibility
How to Make a Terrorist Out of Nothing
R v G concerns the controversial offence of collecting or recording information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. We comment on a number of deficiencies in that judgment and investigate the proper approach that ought to be taken to that offence under the Human Rights Act 1998
Crimes and Security
This essay considers the role that the value of security might play in criminalisation. While endorsing security as a legitimate rationale for the creation of a criminal offence, it examines some existing offences that are created or structured in a particular way for security reasons. This is done through a two‐stage analysis. Stage one considers the consequences of adopting an offence or offence definition if it was interpreted ideally and comp…
The Homicide Ladder 1
The Presumption of Innocence and the Human Rights Act
There has recently been a proliferation of case law dealing with potential inroads into the presumption of innocence in the criminal law of England and Wales, in the light of article 6(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights. This article is concerned with the nature of the presumption of innocence. It considers two central issues. The first is how the courts should address the question of when the presumption of innocence is interfered wit…
Attribution, Ethics and Emotions in Criminal Responsibility
How should one go about writing about criminal law? In entitling his book Central Issues in Criminal Theory,' William Wilson implies that he places his enterprise within a certain niche of writing about criminal law that is somehow to be distinguished from other kinds of writing about criminal law. The discipline of criminal law theory, it is sometimes thought, constitutes a distinct part of writing about criminal law more generally. Why not just…
Between governance and discipline
This article attempts to re-establish the importance of Foucault's work for an understanding of the way in which modern law operates. This argument has two stages. Firstly, there is a critique of the interpretation of Foucault's work by legal and sociological thinkers. It is argued that by reading the term 'juridical' as synonymous with the term 'law' in Foucault, people miss the substance of Foucault's argument. The term juridical describes an a…
Wrongful Intentions without Closeness
Distributing Responsibility
A widespread view in moral, legal, and political philosophy, as well as in public discourse, is that responsibility makes a difference to the fair allocation or distribution of things that are valuable or disvaluable independently of responsibility. For example, the fairness of punishing a person for wrongdoing varies with her responsibility for wrongdoing; the fairness of requiring a person to pay compensation varies with her responsibility for …
Permissibility in a World of Wrongdoing
Beyond the Scope of Consent
When, why, and in what ways, do a person's errors have a bearing on whether they validly consent to another person's conduct
Orwell's Battle with Brittain
Past Killings and Proportionality in War
This article builds on some arguments that I developed in the course of discussing Cécile Fabre's article, “War Exit,” on PEA Soup: http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2015/05/ethics-discussions-at-pea-soup-cecile-fabres-war-exit-with-critical-precis-by-helen-frowe.html. I am grateful to Cécile for helping me to develop my views. I am also grateful to the war discussion group at Oxford for their thoughts about an earlier draft. Thanks to Seth Laza…
Crimes and Security
This essay considers the role that the value of security might play in criminalisation. While endorsing security as a legitimate rationale for the creation of a criminal offence, it examines some existing offences that are created or structured in a particular way for security reasons. This is done through a two‐stage analysis. Stage one considers the consequences of adopting an offence or offence definition if it was interpreted ideally and comp…
The Presumption of Innocence and the Human Rights Act
There has recently been a proliferation of case law dealing with potential inroads into the presumption of innocence in the criminal law of England and Wales, in the light of article 6(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights. This article is concerned with the nature of the presumption of innocence. It considers two central issues. The first is how the courts should address the question of when the presumption of innocence is interfered wit…
Duty and Liability
In his recent book, Killing in War , Jeff McMahan sets out a number of conditions for a person to be liable to attack, provided the attack is used to avert an objectively unjust threat: (1) The threat, if realized, will wrongfully harm another; (2) the person is responsible for creating the threat; (3) killing the person is necessary to avert the threat, and (4) killing the person is a proportionate response to the threat. The present article foc…
The Homicide Ladder 1
Between governance and discipline
This article attempts to re-establish the importance of Foucault's work for an understanding of the way in which modern law operates. This argument has two stages. Firstly, there is a critique of the interpretation of Foucault's work by legal and sociological thinkers. It is argued that by reading the term 'juridical' as synonymous with the term 'law' in Foucault, people miss the substance of Foucault's argument. The term juridical describes an a…
The Presumption of Innocence and the Human Rights Act
There has recently been a proliferation of case law dealing with potential inroads into the presumption of innocence in the criminal law of England and Wales, in the light of article 6(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights. This article is concerned with the nature of the presumption of innocence. It considers two central issues. The first is how the courts should address the question of when the presumption of innocence is interfered wit…
Attribution, Ethics and Emotions in Criminal Responsibility
How should one go about writing about criminal law? In entitling his book Central Issues in Criminal Theory,' William Wilson implies that he places his enterprise within a certain niche of writing about criminal law that is somehow to be distinguished from other kinds of writing about criminal law. The discipline of criminal law theory, it is sometimes thought, constitutes a distinct part of writing about criminal law more generally. Why not just…
The Homicide Ladder 1
Crimes and Security
This essay considers the role that the value of security might play in criminalisation. While endorsing security as a legitimate rationale for the creation of a criminal offence, it examines some existing offences that are created or structured in a particular way for security reasons. This is done through a two‐stage analysis. Stage one considers the consequences of adopting an offence or offence definition if it was interpreted ideally and comp…
Poverty and Criminal Responsibility
How to Make a Terrorist Out of Nothing
R v G concerns the controversial offence of collecting or recording information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. We comment on a number of deficiencies in that judgment and investigate the proper approach that ought to be taken to that offence under the Human Rights Act 1998
The Ends of HarmThe Moral Foundations of Criminal Law
How can the brutal and costly enterprise of criminal punishment be justified? This text makes a contribution to the philosophical literature and debate on the morality of punishing, arguing that punishment is justified in the duties that offenders incur as a result of their wrongdoing.
Duty and Liability
In his recent book, Killing in War , Jeff McMahan sets out a number of conditions for a person to be liable to attack, provided the attack is used to avert an objectively unjust threat: (1) The threat, if realized, will wrongfully harm another; (2) the person is responsible for creating the threat; (3) killing the person is necessary to avert the threat, and (4) killing the person is a proportionate response to the threat. The present article foc…
Orwell's Battle with Brittain
Wrongful Intentions without Closeness
Permissibility in a World of Wrongdoing
Between Governance and Discipline
This article attempts to re-establish the importance of Foucault’s work for an understanding of the way in which modern law operates. This argument has two stages. Firsdy, there is a critique of the interpretation of Foucault’s work by legal and sociological thinkers. It is argued that by reading the term ‘juridical’ as synonymous with the term ‘law’ in Foucault, people miss the substance of Foucault’s argument. The term juridical describes an ar…
The persistence of the right of return
This article defends the right that Palestinians have to return to the territory governed by Israel. However, it does not defend the duty on Israel to permit return. Whether there is such a duty depends on whether the economic, social and security costs override that right. In order to defend the right of return, it is shown both that the current generation of Palestinians retain a significant interest in return, and that insofar as their interes…
Past Killings and Proportionality in War
This article builds on some arguments that I developed in the course of discussing Cécile Fabre's article, “War Exit,” on PEA Soup: http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2015/05/ethics-discussions-at-pea-soup-cecile-fabres-war-exit-with-critical-precis-by-helen-frowe.html. I am grateful to Cécile for helping me to develop my views. I am also grateful to the war discussion group at Oxford for their thoughts about an earlier draft. Thanks to Seth Laza…
Appropriate Normative Powers
A normative power is a power to alter rights and duties directly. This paper explores what it means to alter rights and duties directly. In the light of that, it examines the kind of argument that might support the existence of normative powers. Both simple and complex instrumentalist accounts of such powers are rejected, as is an approach to normative powers that is based on the existence of normative interests. An alternative is sketched, where…
Inheriting the Right of Return
This Article assesses one kind of argument for an intergenerational right of return in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict. The question is whether descendants of those who were made refugees in the 1948 War can acquire occupancy rights from their parents through inheritance and bequest over territory that they have never lived on. Standard arguments for their inheriting such rights fail for a range of reasons. However, a less familiar a…
Distributing Responsibility
A widespread view in moral, legal, and political philosophy, as well as in public discourse, is that responsibility makes a difference to the fair allocation or distribution of things that are valuable or disvaluable independently of responsibility. For example, the fairness of punishing a person for wrongdoing varies with her responsibility for wrongdoing; the fairness of requiring a person to pay compensation varies with her responsibility for …
Two grounds of liability
This essay argues that culpability and responsibility are independent notions, even though some of the same facts make us both responsible and culpable. Responsibility for one’s conduct is grounded in the strength of the agential connection between oneself and one’s conduct. Culpability for one’s conduct is the vices that give rise to that conduct. It then argues that responsibility and culpability for causing a threat are each grounds of liabili…
Consent to Sex in an Unjust World
This article explores the moral significance of consent in an unjust world by developing the view that the validity of consent depends on its causes. It defends the view that the causes of consent make it valid or invalid. It then shows how this idea helps us to distinguish different ways in which consent might matter morally where it has problematic causes. Finally, it uses this analysis to explore the moral significance of a range of problemati…
Refuge and Aid
Horrific scenes of needy migrants attempting to enter wealthy countries, often after expensive, arduous, and dangerous journeys, move many to believe that more such migrants should be permitted to enter and reside. But there are also horrific scenes of desperately needy people at a distance from wealthy countries—the distant needy—who are persecuted by their states, internally displaced due to armed conflict, or who suffer from preventable diseas…
The Rights and Wrongs of No‐Platforming
This article offers an account of no‐platforming, an investigation of the different considerations that determine why no‐platforming is wrong when it is, and how it might be justified. It suggests that no‐platforming can be wrong because it violates a person's right to a platform, or because it involves unjustified public denunciation. It then explores when no‐platforming is justified by exploring when a person might lose a right to a platform, a…
Beyond the Scope of Consent
When, why, and in what ways, do a person's errors have a bearing on whether they validly consent to another person's conduct
Responding to Cultural Wrongs in Palestine and Israel
This chapter is focused on the historic Palestinian town of Lydda, which was more recently renamed Lod. It explores the cultural value that the town had prior to the Palestinians being driven out in 1948, drawing on the distinction between living and embedded culture and iconic and dead culture. It then investigates the obligations owed in the light of that culture by those who came to occupy the town after 1948—especially Moroccan Jews. It argue…
The conditional value of autonomy
This paper is concerned with the conditional value of autonomy. It is valuable for a person to have acted autonomously, but only conditionally on the act performed. It is good for a person autonomously to pursue a noble deed, for example, and bad for a person autonomously to kill without justification. This paper rejects two familiar views of the conditional value of autonomy – that it is always worse for a person to autonomously do what is wrong…
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