Gideon Yaffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 950392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gideon Yaffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gideon |
| FAMILY NAME | Yaffe |
| SIGNATURE | YAFFE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9385-3912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revisiting the “But Everybody Does That!” Defense
The Norm Shift Theory of Punishment
The philosophy of punishment’s focus on the question of justification has left the question of definition neglected. This article explains why there is a need for necessary and sufficient conditions for punishment and offers a new account. Under the theory proposed, to inflict a punishment is to make fewer things permissible for another to do. Since not every such restriction is punishment, an account is offered of the additional conditions needi…
Legal Reasons, Legal Desert, Legal Culpability: Reply to Guerrero, Kelly and Mendlow
What Breaks Are Owed?
This chapter concerns the question of what form our leniency towards children who commit crimes should take. The chapter argues that the primary and most important way we ought to give kids a break is through laws that produce mitigation of sentence, either by granting sentencing judges the power to mitigate the sentence of a kid because he is a kid , or by barring them from issuing harsh sentences that they have the power to give to adults. Howe…
The Age of Culpability: Children and the Nature of Criminal Responsibility
Reflection on the grounds for leniency towards children who commit crimes is the entry point into the development, in this book, of a theory of the nature of criminal responsibility and desert of punishment for crime. The book argues that child criminals are owed lesser punishments than adults thanks not to their psychological, behavioral, or neural immaturity but, instead, because they are denied the vote. This conclusion is reached through the …
Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman
Legality
Book Review| July 01 2012 Legality Shapiro, Scott, Legality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 488 pp. Gideon Yaffe Gideon Yaffe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 457–460. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1574463 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gideon Yaffe; Legality. The Philosophical Review 1 July 2012…
A Procedural Rationale for the Necessity Defense
The lion comes daily to the library and is beloved by the patrons and by the head librarian, Miss Merriweather. The library has many rules, but only one of them is of particular importance to the lion: no roaring allowed. The penalty for violation, as the lion well knows, is nothing less than excommunication. When Miss Merriweather falls and breaks her arm while reaching to a high shelf, the lion finds that the only way he can get help is to roar…
"The Government Beguiled Me": The Entrapment Defense and the Problem of Private Entrapment
Defendants who are being tried for accepting a temptation issued by the government sometimes employ the entrapment defense. Acquittal of some of them is thought to be justified either on the grounds that culpability was undermined by the temptation (the “subjective” approach) or on the grounds that the government acted objectionably in issuing the temptation (the “objective” approach). Advocates of the objective approach often criticize those who…
Manifest activity: Thomas Reid's theory of action
Manifest Activity presents and critically examines Thomas Reid's doctrines about the model of human power, the will, our capacities for purposeful conduct, and the place of our agency in the natural world. Reid is one of the most important philosophers of the 18th century, but hitherto under-appreciated; through the reconstruction of his arguments, many of which have never before been discussed, Gideon Yaffe demonstrates that Reid's simple prose …
The Office of an Introspectible Sensation: A reply to Falkenstein and Grandi
For Reid the perception of smell, taste, sound, temperature, texture, and color all proceed according to what has come to be known as ‘the Standard Schema’: the quality of the object impresses itself upon our bodies; this physical impression gives rise to a sensation; and this sensation, in turn, “suggests” the quality of the object, resulting thereby in a conception of the quality and a conviction in its existence. All interpreters of Reid agree…
Reid on the Perception of Visible Figure
Thomas Reid’s theory of sensory perception has been widely examined in recent years. Commentators have been more or less united in the claim that Reid treats the visual perception of the shape, or figure, of objects in a way significantly different from the way in which he treats sensory perception through the other sense modalities, and even from the way in which he treats the visual perception of color. This paper argues that the recent seconda…
Indoctrination, Coercion and Freedom of Will
Manipulation by another person often undermines freedom. To explain this, a distinction is drawn between two forms of manipulation: indoctrination is defined as causing another person to respond to reasons in a pattern that serves the manipulator's ends; coercion as supplying another person with reasons that, given the pattern in which he responds to reasons, lead him to act in ways that serve the manipulator's ends. It is argued that both forms …
Reconsidering Reid's Geometry of Visibles
In his ‘Inquiry’, Reid claims, against Berkeley, that there is a science of the perspectival shapes of objects (‘visible figures’): they are geometrically equivalent to shapes projected onto the surfaces of spheres. This claim should be understood as asserting that for every theorem regarding visible figures there is a corresponding theorem regarding spherical projections; the proof of the theorem regarding spherical projections can be used to co…
Recent Work on Addiction and Responsible Agency
Indoctrination, Coercion and Freedom of Will
Manipulation by another person often undermines freedom. To explain this, a distinction is drawn between two forms of manipulation: indoctrination is defined as causing another person to respond to reasons in a pattern that serves the manipulator's ends; coercion as supplying another person with reasons that, given the pattern in which he responds to reasons, lead him to act in ways that serve the manipulator's ends. It is argued that both forms …
Recent Work on Addiction and Responsible Agency
Reid on the Perception of Visible Figure
Thomas Reid’s theory of sensory perception has been widely examined in recent years. Commentators have been more or less united in the claim that Reid treats the visual perception of the shape, or figure, of objects in a way significantly different from the way in which he treats sensory perception through the other sense modalities, and even from the way in which he treats the visual perception of color. This paper argues that the recent seconda…
Reconsidering Reid's Geometry of Visibles
In his ‘Inquiry’, Reid claims, against Berkeley, that there is a science of the perspectival shapes of objects (‘visible figures’): they are geometrically equivalent to shapes projected onto the surfaces of spheres. This claim should be understood as asserting that for every theorem regarding visible figures there is a corresponding theorem regarding spherical projections; the proof of the theorem regarding spherical projections can be used to co…
Recent Work on Addiction and Responsible Agency
Reconsidering Reid's Geometry of Visibles
In his ‘Inquiry’, Reid claims, against Berkeley, that there is a science of the perspectival shapes of objects (‘visible figures’): they are geometrically equivalent to shapes projected onto the surfaces of spheres. This claim should be understood as asserting that for every theorem regarding visible figures there is a corresponding theorem regarding spherical projections; the proof of the theorem regarding spherical projections can be used to co…
The Office of an Introspectible Sensation: A reply to Falkenstein and Grandi
For Reid the perception of smell, taste, sound, temperature, texture, and color all proceed according to what has come to be known as ‘the Standard Schema’: the quality of the object impresses itself upon our bodies; this physical impression gives rise to a sensation; and this sensation, in turn, “suggests” the quality of the object, resulting thereby in a conception of the quality and a conviction in its existence. All interpreters of Reid agree…
Reid on the Perception of Visible Figure
Thomas Reid’s theory of sensory perception has been widely examined in recent years. Commentators have been more or less united in the claim that Reid treats the visual perception of the shape, or figure, of objects in a way significantly different from the way in which he treats sensory perception through the other sense modalities, and even from the way in which he treats the visual perception of color. This paper argues that the recent seconda…
Indoctrination, Coercion and Freedom of Will
Manipulation by another person often undermines freedom. To explain this, a distinction is drawn between two forms of manipulation: indoctrination is defined as causing another person to respond to reasons in a pattern that serves the manipulator's ends; coercion as supplying another person with reasons that, given the pattern in which he responds to reasons, lead him to act in ways that serve the manipulator's ends. It is argued that both forms …
Manifest activity: Thomas Reid's theory of action
Manifest Activity presents and critically examines Thomas Reid's doctrines about the model of human power, the will, our capacities for purposeful conduct, and the place of our agency in the natural world. Reid is one of the most important philosophers of the 18th century, but hitherto under-appreciated; through the reconstruction of his arguments, many of which have never before been discussed, Gideon Yaffe demonstrates that Reid's simple prose …
"The Government Beguiled Me": The Entrapment Defense and the Problem of Private Entrapment
Defendants who are being tried for accepting a temptation issued by the government sometimes employ the entrapment defense. Acquittal of some of them is thought to be justified either on the grounds that culpability was undermined by the temptation (the “subjective” approach) or on the grounds that the government acted objectionably in issuing the temptation (the “objective” approach). Advocates of the objective approach often criticize those who…
A Procedural Rationale for the Necessity Defense
The lion comes daily to the library and is beloved by the patrons and by the head librarian, Miss Merriweather. The library has many rules, but only one of them is of particular importance to the lion: no roaring allowed. The penalty for violation, as the lion well knows, is nothing less than excommunication. When Miss Merriweather falls and breaks her arm while reaching to a high shelf, the lion finds that the only way he can get help is to roar…
Legality
Book Review| July 01 2012 Legality Shapiro, Scott, Legality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 488 pp. Gideon Yaffe Gideon Yaffe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 457–460. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1574463 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gideon Yaffe; Legality. The Philosophical Review 1 July 2012…
Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman
What Breaks Are Owed?
This chapter concerns the question of what form our leniency towards children who commit crimes should take. The chapter argues that the primary and most important way we ought to give kids a break is through laws that produce mitigation of sentence, either by granting sentencing judges the power to mitigate the sentence of a kid because he is a kid , or by barring them from issuing harsh sentences that they have the power to give to adults. Howe…
The Age of Culpability: Children and the Nature of Criminal Responsibility
Reflection on the grounds for leniency towards children who commit crimes is the entry point into the development, in this book, of a theory of the nature of criminal responsibility and desert of punishment for crime. The book argues that child criminals are owed lesser punishments than adults thanks not to their psychological, behavioral, or neural immaturity but, instead, because they are denied the vote. This conclusion is reached through the …
Legal Reasons, Legal Desert, Legal Culpability: Reply to Guerrero, Kelly and Mendlow
Revisiting the “But Everybody Does That!” Defense
The Norm Shift Theory of Punishment
The philosophy of punishment’s focus on the question of justification has left the question of definition neglected. This article explains why there is a need for necessary and sufficient conditions for punishment and offers a new account. Under the theory proposed, to inflict a punishment is to make fewer things permissible for another to do. Since not every such restriction is punishment, an account is offered of the additional conditions needi…
Psychology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Free Will and Agency (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works)