This course is capped at 30 students. The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the theories that explain the practice of punishment, a practice that defines the criminal ...

Whether or not one agrees with his defense of abolitionism, Boonin convincingly shows that a plausible solution to the problem of punishment will look very different from any theory that has come ...

Proponents of these positions pay insufficient attention to the conflicts of values that punishment, even when justified, generates. Mobilizing recent developments in moral philosophy, Zaibert offers ...

This is an intermediate level course in political philosophy. It examines two independent topics. We begin with a survey of the different accounts of what liberty is and why liberty is important. We ...