Mark Tunick
Biographic Data
| ID | 979035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Tunick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Tunick |
| SIGNATURE | TUNICK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4802-9254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
J.S. Mill's Puzzling Position on Prostitution and his Harm Principle
J.S. Mill argues against licensing or forced medical examinations of prostitutes even if these would reduce harm, for two reasons: the state should not legitimize immoral conduct; and coercing prostitutes would violate Mill's harm principle as they do not risk causing non-consensual harm to others, their clients do. There is nothing puzzling about Mill opposing coercive restrictions on self-regarding immoral conduct while also opposing state supp…
State Authority, Parental Authority, and the Rights of Mature Minors
John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech
Mill didn't resolve this puzzle: if prostitution must be tolerated according to his principle of liberty as it doesn't non-consensually harm others, why punish the accessory – the pimp? Yet in On Liberty 's passage on pimps (CW 18:296–7) Mill seriously considers restricting pimps’ speech for reasons other than preventing harm: pimps’ speech undermines decisional autonomy for purposes the state regards as immoral, and in response the state may use…
Religious Freedom and Toleration
Among the defining features of a liberal pluralist state is what John Rawls has called the “fact of pluralism”: individuals hold diverse “comprehensive doctrines” as to the meaning, value, and ends of life. For Rawls this is a permanent feature of modern democracies, a fact which motivates him to seek a political conception of justice that rests on fundamental intuitive ideas of a democratic society, implicitly shared by people whatever their rel…
Brain Privacy and the Case of Cannibal Cop
Balancing Privacy and Free Speech
In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests can ever be weightier than society’s interest in free speech and access to information. Taking …
Hegel on Religion and Politics
Privacy and Punishment
Philosophers have focused on why privacy is of value to innocent people with nothing to hide.I argue that for people who do have something to hide, such as a past crime or bad behavior in a public place, informational privacy can be important for avoiding undeserved or disproportionate nonlegal punishment.Against the objection that one cannot expect privacy in public facts, I argue that I might have a legitimate privacy interest in public facts t…
Privacy Rights
Hegel and History
Privacy in Public Places
Tolerant Imperialism
Some critics of John Stuart Mill understand him to advocate the forced assimilation of people he regards as uncivilized and to defend toleration and the principle of liberty only for civilized people of the West. Examination of Mill's social and political writings and practice while serving the British East India Company shows, instead, that Mill is a tolerant imperialist: Mill defends interference in India to promote the protection of legal righ…
John Stuart Mill and Unassimilated Subjects
Mill's harm principle declares that one's liberty of action may be interfered with by the state only if one has caused harm to others. Cases of culture clash involve unassimilated subjects, be they citizens, aliens, immigrants or national minorities, who violate the law while engaging in a practice that is a prevalent and legitimate part of their native culture or religion and which they do not regard as harmful. A Millian approach to the punishm…
Can culture excuse crime?’
The inability thesis holds that one’s culture determines behavior and can make one unable to comply with the law and therefore less deserving of punishment. Opponents of the thesis reject the view that humans are made physically unable to act in certain ways by their cultural upbringing. The article seeks to help evaluate the inability thesis by pointing to a literature in cultural psychology and anthropology presenting empirical evidence of the …
Does Privacy Undermine Community
Hegel on Justified Disobedience
Etude des conditions de la justification de la desobeissance des citoyens a l'Etat, ou de leur resistance a ses institutions et ses lois, chez Hegel. Soulignant l'originalite de Hegel sur la question de l'obligation politique, tant du point de vue de son interpretation traditionnelle que du point de vue des approches contemporaines du probleme par le criticisme rationnel, la theorie de la gratitude ou du consentement, l'A. montre que la conceptio…
Are There Natural Rights?
Punishment
What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes wrongdoing, but also how it implements punishment. Contending that the theory and practice of punishment are inherently linked, Tunick draws on a broad range of thinkers, from the radical criticisms of Nietzsche, Foucault, and some Marxist theorists through…
Hegel's Political Philosophy
To scholars of Western intellectual history Hegel is one of the most important of all political thinkers, but politicians and other "down-to-earth" persons see his speculative philosophy as far removed from their immediate concerns. Put off by his difficult terminology, many participants in practical politics may also believe that Hegel's idealism unduly legitimates the status quo. By examining his justification of legal punishment, this book int…
Tolerant Imperialism
Some critics of John Stuart Mill understand him to advocate the forced assimilation of people he regards as uncivilized and to defend toleration and the principle of liberty only for civilized people of the West. Examination of Mill's social and political writings and practice while serving the British East India Company shows, instead, that Mill is a tolerant imperialist: Mill defends interference in India to promote the protection of legal righ…
John Stuart Mill and Unassimilated Subjects
Mill's harm principle declares that one's liberty of action may be interfered with by the state only if one has caused harm to others. Cases of culture clash involve unassimilated subjects, be they citizens, aliens, immigrants or national minorities, who violate the law while engaging in a practice that is a prevalent and legitimate part of their native culture or religion and which they do not regard as harmful. A Millian approach to the punishm…
Hegel on Justified Disobedience
Etude des conditions de la justification de la desobeissance des citoyens a l'Etat, ou de leur resistance a ses institutions et ses lois, chez Hegel. Soulignant l'originalite de Hegel sur la question de l'obligation politique, tant du point de vue de son interpretation traditionnelle que du point de vue des approches contemporaines du probleme par le criticisme rationnel, la theorie de la gratitude ou du consentement, l'A. montre que la conceptio…
Brain Privacy and the Case of Cannibal Cop
Can culture excuse crime?’
The inability thesis holds that one’s culture determines behavior and can make one unable to comply with the law and therefore less deserving of punishment. Opponents of the thesis reject the view that humans are made physically unable to act in certain ways by their cultural upbringing. The article seeks to help evaluate the inability thesis by pointing to a literature in cultural psychology and anthropology presenting empirical evidence of the …
Hegel's Political Philosophy
To scholars of Western intellectual history Hegel is one of the most important of all political thinkers, but politicians and other "down-to-earth" persons see his speculative philosophy as far removed from their immediate concerns. Put off by his difficult terminology, many participants in practical politics may also believe that Hegel's idealism unduly legitimates the status quo. By examining his justification of legal punishment, this book int…
Punishment
What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes wrongdoing, but also how it implements punishment. Contending that the theory and practice of punishment are inherently linked, Tunick draws on a broad range of thinkers, from the radical criticisms of Nietzsche, Foucault, and some Marxist theorists through…
Are There Natural Rights?
Hegel on Justified Disobedience
Etude des conditions de la justification de la desobeissance des citoyens a l'Etat, ou de leur resistance a ses institutions et ses lois, chez Hegel. Soulignant l'originalite de Hegel sur la question de l'obligation politique, tant du point de vue de son interpretation traditionnelle que du point de vue des approches contemporaines du probleme par le criticisme rationnel, la theorie de la gratitude ou du consentement, l'A. montre que la conceptio…
Does Privacy Undermine Community
Can culture excuse crime?’
The inability thesis holds that one’s culture determines behavior and can make one unable to comply with the law and therefore less deserving of punishment. Opponents of the thesis reject the view that humans are made physically unable to act in certain ways by their cultural upbringing. The article seeks to help evaluate the inability thesis by pointing to a literature in cultural psychology and anthropology presenting empirical evidence of the …
John Stuart Mill and Unassimilated Subjects
Mill's harm principle declares that one's liberty of action may be interfered with by the state only if one has caused harm to others. Cases of culture clash involve unassimilated subjects, be they citizens, aliens, immigrants or national minorities, who violate the law while engaging in a practice that is a prevalent and legitimate part of their native culture or religion and which they do not regard as harmful. A Millian approach to the punishm…
Tolerant Imperialism
Some critics of John Stuart Mill understand him to advocate the forced assimilation of people he regards as uncivilized and to defend toleration and the principle of liberty only for civilized people of the West. Examination of Mill's social and political writings and practice while serving the British East India Company shows, instead, that Mill is a tolerant imperialist: Mill defends interference in India to promote the protection of legal righ…
Hegel and History
Privacy in Public Places
Privacy Rights
Hegel on Religion and Politics
Privacy and Punishment
Philosophers have focused on why privacy is of value to innocent people with nothing to hide.I argue that for people who do have something to hide, such as a past crime or bad behavior in a public place, informational privacy can be important for avoiding undeserved or disproportionate nonlegal punishment.Against the objection that one cannot expect privacy in public facts, I argue that I might have a legitimate privacy interest in public facts t…
Balancing Privacy and Free Speech
In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests can ever be weightier than society’s interest in free speech and access to information. Taking …
Brain Privacy and the Case of Cannibal Cop
John Stuart Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech
Mill didn't resolve this puzzle: if prostitution must be tolerated according to his principle of liberty as it doesn't non-consensually harm others, why punish the accessory – the pimp? Yet in On Liberty 's passage on pimps (CW 18:296–7) Mill seriously considers restricting pimps’ speech for reasons other than preventing harm: pimps’ speech undermines decisional autonomy for purposes the state regards as immoral, and in response the state may use…
Religious Freedom and Toleration
Among the defining features of a liberal pluralist state is what John Rawls has called the “fact of pluralism”: individuals hold diverse “comprehensive doctrines” as to the meaning, value, and ends of life. For Rawls this is a permanent feature of modern democracies, a fact which motivates him to seek a political conception of justice that rests on fundamental intuitive ideas of a democratic society, implicitly shared by people whatever their rel…
State Authority, Parental Authority, and the Rights of Mature Minors
J.S. Mill's Puzzling Position on Prostitution and his Harm Principle
J.S. Mill argues against licensing or forced medical examinations of prostitutes even if these would reduce harm, for two reasons: the state should not legitimize immoral conduct; and coercing prostitutes would violate Mill's harm principle as they do not risk causing non-consensual harm to others, their clients do. There is nothing puzzling about Mill opposing coercive restrictions on self-regarding immoral conduct while also opposing state supp…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law and economics (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)