Christopher Bennett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3584256 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher Bennett |
| PRENOMES | Christopher |
| SOBRENOME | Bennett |
| ASSINATURA | BENNETT C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8084-1210 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Role of Emotion in Forgiveness
In this paper I defend the normative power account of forgiveness against the charge that it cannot accommodate the intimate connection between forgiveness and emotion. I look at the grounds for thinking that emotion is central to forgiveness. I then show how philosophers have developed this idea in accounts which make emotional changes definitive of forgiveness. Against such views, I show that serious problems face any attempt to make emotional …
What is the Relation Between Emotion and Expressive Action? The Idea of Expressive Emotion
This paper is an attempt to give shape to the idea of an ‘expressive emotion.’ An emotion is expressive, I argue, if it is best explained by reference to an expressive action. An expressive action is an action that has expressive or symbolic properties that relate non-arbitrarily to the significance of a situation, and which non-instrumentally marks the situation as in some way significant. I argue for six main conclusions about expressive emotio…
The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice
This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental. I defend the role of apology against criticisms that it is insufficient, unnecessary, or irrelevant to historical in…
Developing a syndromic surveillance tool to support the epidemiological investigation into paediatric acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in England
We demonstrate how syndromic surveillance provided support to the HUA outbreak using an existing syndromic surveillance framework to develop new indicators based on the newly emerging clinical symptoms. The outputs from the syndromic tool matched clinical and epidemiological findings with respect to trends in other HUA-related data, including clinical and laboratory reports, over time. This work demonstrates the potential for syndromic surveillan…
Desert and Dissociation
I argue against the idea of basic desert . I claim that the supposed normative force of desert considerations is better understood in terms of dissociation . The starting point is to note that an important strategy in spelling out the apparent normative force of desert considerations appeals to the idea of complicity. I argue that the idea of basic desert cannot give a good explanation of this connection. I propose that it is rather dissociation …
Should I get angry – or just take offence? A response to McTernan
This paper is a response to Emily McTernan’s book, Taking Offence. I focus on how to evaluate taking offence comparatively against alternative attitudes such as anger or blame. Drawing on some of my work on blame, emotion and expressive action, I sketch a way in which we might reach a more convincing answer than that provided by McTernan
Could There Be Expressive Reasons? A Sketch of A Theory
In pursuit of a theory of expressive reasons, I focus on the practical rationality of actions such as welcoming, thanking, congratulating, saluting – I label them ‘expressive actions.’ How should we understand the kinds of practical reasons that count in favour of expressive actions? This question is related to the question of how to understand non-instrumental fittingness-type reasons for emotion. Expressive actions often are and should be expre…
What Goes On When We Apologize
In this paper, I argue that our practice of giving and demanding apologies is rationalized by a belief that apologies make a difference to our normative situation. The characteristic normative effects of an apology are, I claim, that it removes an obligation on others to distance themselves from the wrongdoer, and that it makes the apologizer personally accountable to the addressee for their future compliance with the obligation they violated. Ho…
Love Among the Ruins
In this paper I give an interpretation of the Wim Wenders film, Paris, Texas, that brings to bear Talbot Brewer’s notion of “dialectical activity.” According to Brewer, dialectical activity is an activity the value of which is only obscurely glimpsed at the outset, and which must be deepened and broadened through progressive engagement in the activity. I argue that these features characterize Travis, the main character in the film, and that his d…
The Problem of Expressive Action
Rational explanation of action out of emotion faces a number of challenges. The Wrong Explanation Challenge says that explaining action out of emotion by reference to a purpose rather than an emotion gets it wrong. The Redundancy Challenge says that if explanation of an action by reference to emotion is sufficient then rational explanation is redundant. And the No Further Justification Challenge says that there is no more to say, at the level of …
Spike in Asthma Healthcare Presentations in Eastern England during June 2021
Thunderstorm asthma is often characterised by a sudden surge in patients presenting with exacerbated symptoms of asthma linked to thunderstorm activity. Here, we describe a large spike in asthma and difficulty breathing symptoms observed across parts of England on 17 June 2021. The number of healthcare presentations during the asthma event was compared to expected levels for the overall population and across specific regions. Across affected geog…
Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? Evidence from the Tennessee Sails Program
Many states are redesigning their college remediation policies to increase postsecondary degree completion. In 2012, Tennessee began waiving college math remediation for high school students who completed a computer‐based remedial math course (SAILS) during their senior year. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the high school remedial course did not improve students' math achievement any more than the typical senior year math c…
The Ethics of Social Punishment
How do we punish others socially, and should we do so? In her 2018 Descartes Lectures for Tilburg University, Linda Radzik explores the informal methods ordinary people use to enforce moral norms, such as telling people off, boycotting businesses, and publicly shaming wrongdoers on social media. Over three lectures, Radzik develops an account of what social punishment is, why it is sometimes permissible, and when it must be withheld. She argues t…
Evaluating voluntary sector involvement in mass incarceration
Mass incarceration and supervision operate through a mixed economy. Using the case study of Samaritans’ emotional support for prisoners in distress in England and Wales, we present an original framework of five normative criteria to facilitate nuanced assessment of voluntary sector criminal justice participation. This is an urgent, significant task for theory and practice: we need to find forms of public input that can deconstruct bloated penal s…
Ethics of Social Punishment
Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative Power
The Category and the Office of Proclamation, with Particular Reference to Luther and Kierkegaard
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
The Alteration Thesis
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Bosnia's Paralyzed Peace
What Is This Thing Called Ethics
Journal of Applied Philosophy
What Is The Core Normative Argument for Greater Democracy in Criminal Justice
In this paper, I look at some arguments for introducing a greater degree of lay participation into decision-making in the criminal justice system and other central institutions. I distinguish two types of argument for the conclusion that we should introduce greater lay participation: the Correction Thesis, that lay participation is necessary to correct for certain limitations and biases inherent even in the best decision-making that is carried ou…
Sustainable Rural Roads for Livelihoods and Livability
Of some 33.8 million km. of classified roads that girdle the globe, nearly all unsealed roads and an estimated 85% of paved roads are low-volume roads (LVRs) with ADT of less than 1000 vehicles/day. Rural LVRs have a critical role in economic growth and poverty reduction, and a prominent function in emergency preparedness, disaster relief and rural job creation. This paper discuses the meaning of sustainability and its more practical subset--liva…
Is Amnesty a Collective Act of Forgiveness
Liberalism, Autonomy and Conjugal Love
The Alteration Thesis
Sustainable Rural Roads for Livelihoods and Livability
Of some 33.8 million km. of classified roads that girdle the globe, nearly all unsealed roads and an estimated 85% of paved roads are low-volume roads (LVRs) with ADT of less than 1000 vehicles/day. Rural LVRs have a critical role in economic growth and poverty reduction, and a prominent function in emergency preparedness, disaster relief and rural job creation. This paper discuses the meaning of sustainability and its more practical subset--liva…
Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? Evidence from the Tennessee Sails Program
Many states are redesigning their college remediation policies to increase postsecondary degree completion. In 2012, Tennessee began waiving college math remediation for high school students who completed a computer‐based remedial math course (SAILS) during their senior year. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the high school remedial course did not improve students' math achievement any more than the typical senior year math c…
Evaluating voluntary sector involvement in mass incarceration
Mass incarceration and supervision operate through a mixed economy. Using the case study of Samaritans’ emotional support for prisoners in distress in England and Wales, we present an original framework of five normative criteria to facilitate nuanced assessment of voluntary sector criminal justice participation. This is an urgent, significant task for theory and practice: we need to find forms of public input that can deconstruct bloated penal s…
The Varieties of Retributive Experience
Journal Article The Varieties of Retributive Experience Get access Christopher Bennett Christopher Bennett University of [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 207, April 2002, Pages 145–163, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00259 Published: 07 January 2003
Should I get angry – or just take offence? A response to McTernan
This paper is a response to Emily McTernan’s book, Taking Offence. I focus on how to evaluate taking offence comparatively against alternative attitudes such as anger or blame. Drawing on some of my work on blame, emotion and expressive action, I sketch a way in which we might reach a more convincing answer than that provided by McTernan
The Category and the Office of Proclamation, with Particular Reference to Luther and Kierkegaard
The Killing State
The papers in this collection represent an important and wide-ranging crosssection of current debate about the death penalty.Coming from the varied perspectives of moral and political philosophy, legal theory, cultural criticism and what might be called political anthropology, the approaches taken range from mainstream to Nietzschean to deconstructionist.Neither is the collection univocally against the death penalty.These essays would make fruitf…
Bosnia
Diversification among coffee smallholders in the highlands of South Sumatra, Indonesia
The Quality of Smallholder Cloves in Maluku
Indonesia's cloves meet higher quality Standards than most of her other agricultural commodilies. This paper presents the results of research on Ambon, Maluku, whose smallholder clove farming System is representative of the principal system used by Indonesien clove producers, in which cloves form part of a well-diversified agricultural portfolio. The paper examines the clove marketing system, the factors involved in clove quality, and the system …
The economics of monocropping and intercropping by smallholders
Bosnia
Punishment, moral community and moral argument
(2001). Punishment, moral community and moral argument: A Review of R.A. Duff, Punishment, Communication and Community and Matt Matravers, Justice and Punishment: The Rationale of Coercion. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 101-119
The Varieties of Retributive Experience
Journal Article The Varieties of Retributive Experience Get access Christopher Bennett Christopher Bennett University of [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 207, April 2002, Pages 145–163, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00259 Published: 07 January 2003
A Problem Case for Public Reason
This essay is concerned with what I shall call the public reason constraint. The public reason constraint expresses the view that in public debate we have some duty of neutrality: the justification
Liberalism, Autonomy and Conjugal Love
The Killing State
The papers in this collection represent an important and wide-ranging crosssection of current debate about the death penalty.Coming from the varied perspectives of moral and political philosophy, legal theory, cultural criticism and what might be called political anthropology, the approaches taken range from mainstream to Nietzschean to deconstructionist.Neither is the collection univocally against the death penalty.These essays would make fruitf…
Is Amnesty a Collective Act of Forgiveness
Autonomy and Conjugal Love
The Apology Ritual
Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and making amends. He argues that offenders have a 'right to be punished' - that it is part of taking an offender seriously as a member of a normatively demanding relationship (such as friendship or collegiality or citizenship) that she is subject to retributive attitudes when she violates the demands of th…
The apology ritual
Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and making amends. He argues that offenders have a 'right to be punished' - that it is part of taking an offender seriously as a member of a normatively demanding relationship (such as friendship or collegiality or citizenship) that she is subject to retributive attitudes when she violates the demands of th…
Substantive Thoughts? The Early Work of Alighiero Boetti
May 01 2008 Substantive Thoughts? The Early Work of Alighiero Boetti Christopher G. Bennett Christopher G. Bennett Christopher G. Bennett recently completed his doctorate in art history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currendy preparing a book manuscript on the work of Alighiero Boetti, Pino Pascali, and other key Italian artists of the 1960s. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article In…
What is this thing called ethics?
Sustainable Rural Roads for Livelihoods and Livability
Of some 33.8 million km. of classified roads that girdle the globe, nearly all unsealed roads and an estimated 85% of paved roads are low-volume roads (LVRs) with ADT of less than 1000 vehicles/day. Rural LVRs have a critical role in economic growth and poverty reduction, and a prominent function in emergency preparedness, disaster relief and rural job creation. This paper discuses the meaning of sustainability and its more practical subset--liva…
Journal of Applied Philosophy
What Is The Core Normative Argument for Greater Democracy in Criminal Justice
In this paper, I look at some arguments for introducing a greater degree of lay participation into decision-making in the criminal justice system and other central institutions. I distinguish two types of argument for the conclusion that we should introduce greater lay participation: the Correction Thesis, that lay participation is necessary to correct for certain limitations and biases inherent even in the best decision-making that is carried ou…
What Is This Thing Called Ethics
Bosnia's Paralyzed Peace
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
The Alteration Thesis
Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative Power
The Category and the Office of Proclamation, with Particular Reference to Luther and Kierkegaard
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