Erin I Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 1129087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin I Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin I |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY E I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5917-8423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Accountability in criminal justice
The author declares no conflicts of interest
The Problem with Prisons
‘That is when justice becomes complete.’ Exemplars’ perspectives on forgiveness as a civic virtue in post-genocide Rwanda
Should forgiveness be considered a civic virtue that promotes peace and justice following injustice? In the aftermath of conflicts as severe as state-sponsored genocide, how can relationships be restored, communities reconciled, and justice achieved? We interviewed 15 adults in Rwanda—survivors of the 1994 genocide, nominated as exemplars for their youth-serving roles in their communities and their experiences with forgiving the traumas of the ge…
Redress and Reparations for Injurious Wrongs
Is blame warranted in applying justice
The belief that people convicted of crimes deserve punishment is commonplace. Yet the punitive conception of individual responsibility commonly associated with ‘just deserts’ exaggerates the moral meaning of criminal guilt, normalizes excessive punishment, and distracts from shared responsibility for social injustice. The problem is, many people who get caught up in the criminal justice system cannot reasonably be thought to deserve their fate. M…
Injustice and the right to punish
Injustice can undermine the standing states have to blame criminal offenders, and this raises a difficulty for a range of punishment theories that depend on a state's moral authority. When a state lacks the moral authority that flows from political legitimacy, its right to punish criminal lawbreakers cannot depend on a systematic claim about the legitimacy of the law. Instead, an unjust state is permitted to punish only criminal acts whose wrongn…
The Historical Injustice Problem for Political Liberalism
Liberal political philosophers have underestimated the philosophical relevance of historical injustice. For some groups, injustices from the past—particularly surrounding race, ethnicity, or religion—are a source of entrenched social inequality decades or even hundreds of years later. Rawls does not advocate the importance of redressing historical injustice, yet political liberalism needs a principle of historical redress. Rawls’s principle of fa…
Equal opportunity, unequal capability
Developing and deploying the notion of primary goods requires an idealizing assumption that models persons as motivated and able to advance their own aims in cooperation with others. A primary goods approach is not in tension with commitment to ensuring that all persons attain certain capabilities. Rawls focuses on the importance of our capacities to develop a sense of justice and a rational life plan. Nussbaum maintains that when it comes to pra…
Naturalism in Question
Tolerance
Book Review| April 01 2003 Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance Hans Oberdiek, Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Pp. ix, 182. Erin I. Kelly Erin I. Kelly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 266–269. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-2-266 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Se…
Justice as Fairness
Justice and Communitarian Identity Politics
On Tolerating the Unreasonable
Philosophy, Tufts University, USA
Habermas on Moral Justification
Defendant une conception pratique de la morale, l'A. critique la justification de l'ethique du discours chez Habermas, ainsi que sa definition des contraintes formelles en principes de la justice. Examinant le role de la theorie de l'argumentation dans la determination du principe de l'universalisation, l'A. propose une autre strategie justificative de l'action communicative fondee sur la dimension normative de la vie sociale
On Tolerating the Unreasonable
Philosophy, Tufts University, USA
Injustice and the right to punish
Injustice can undermine the standing states have to blame criminal offenders, and this raises a difficulty for a range of punishment theories that depend on a state's moral authority. When a state lacks the moral authority that flows from political legitimacy, its right to punish criminal lawbreakers cannot depend on a systematic claim about the legitimacy of the law. Instead, an unjust state is permitted to punish only criminal acts whose wrongn…
Justice as Fairness
Habermas on Moral Justification
Defendant une conception pratique de la morale, l'A. critique la justification de l'ethique du discours chez Habermas, ainsi que sa definition des contraintes formelles en principes de la justice. Examinant le role de la theorie de l'argumentation dans la determination du principe de l'universalisation, l'A. propose une autre strategie justificative de l'action communicative fondee sur la dimension normative de la vie sociale
Justice and Communitarian Identity Politics
On Tolerating the Unreasonable
Philosophy, Tufts University, USA
Justice as Fairness
Tolerance
Book Review| April 01 2003 Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance Hans Oberdiek, Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Pp. ix, 182. Erin I. Kelly Erin I. Kelly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 266–269. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-2-266 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Se…
Naturalism in Question
Equal opportunity, unequal capability
Developing and deploying the notion of primary goods requires an idealizing assumption that models persons as motivated and able to advance their own aims in cooperation with others. A primary goods approach is not in tension with commitment to ensuring that all persons attain certain capabilities. Rawls focuses on the importance of our capacities to develop a sense of justice and a rational life plan. Nussbaum maintains that when it comes to pra…
The Historical Injustice Problem for Political Liberalism
Liberal political philosophers have underestimated the philosophical relevance of historical injustice. For some groups, injustices from the past—particularly surrounding race, ethnicity, or religion—are a source of entrenched social inequality decades or even hundreds of years later. Rawls does not advocate the importance of redressing historical injustice, yet political liberalism needs a principle of historical redress. Rawls’s principle of fa…
Injustice and the right to punish
Injustice can undermine the standing states have to blame criminal offenders, and this raises a difficulty for a range of punishment theories that depend on a state's moral authority. When a state lacks the moral authority that flows from political legitimacy, its right to punish criminal lawbreakers cannot depend on a systematic claim about the legitimacy of the law. Instead, an unjust state is permitted to punish only criminal acts whose wrongn…
Is blame warranted in applying justice
The belief that people convicted of crimes deserve punishment is commonplace. Yet the punitive conception of individual responsibility commonly associated with ‘just deserts’ exaggerates the moral meaning of criminal guilt, normalizes excessive punishment, and distracts from shared responsibility for social injustice. The problem is, many people who get caught up in the criminal justice system cannot reasonably be thought to deserve their fate. M…
Redress and Reparations for Injurious Wrongs
‘That is when justice becomes complete.’ Exemplars’ perspectives on forgiveness as a civic virtue in post-genocide Rwanda
Should forgiveness be considered a civic virtue that promotes peace and justice following injustice? In the aftermath of conflicts as severe as state-sponsored genocide, how can relationships be restored, communities reconciled, and justice achieved? We interviewed 15 adults in Rwanda—survivors of the 1994 genocide, nominated as exemplars for their youth-serving roles in their communities and their experiences with forgiving the traumas of the ge…
Accountability in criminal justice
The author declares no conflicts of interest
The Problem with Prisons
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic Justice (6 works) · Injustice (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works)