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Palgrave handbook of philosophy and public policy
Handbook of philosophy and public policy
Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: Philosophers and Public Policy; Part I: Crime, Punishment, and the Law; Chapter 2: Pretrial Detention and Moral Agency; Introduction; Pretrial Criminal Detentions in the United States; Justification of Pretrial Criminal Detentions; Pretrial Detention and Moral Agency; Conclusions; Chapter 3: Why Brain Images (Probably) Should Not Be Used in US Criminal Trials; Christmas Trees and Brains; Brain Imaging Database; Unscientific Laws; Lay Interpretations of Data; Passion Versus Fact; Conclusion
Chapter 4: A Defense of Jury NullificationThe Practice of Jury Nullification; Is Nullification Legally Valid?; Is Nullification Moral?; Objections to Nullification; How Can We Know?; The Jurors' Oath; The Rule of Law; Wrongful Nullification; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Mandatory Minimums and the War on Drugs; Proportionality; Consistency; Efficiency; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Criminal Punishment and Free Will; An Outline of the Free Will Debate; Contemporary Versions of the Main Positions; Free Will and Retributivist Theories of Punishment; Free Will and Deterrence Theories
Free Will and General DeterrenceConcluding Words; References; Chapter 7: The Promise of Neuroscience for Law: Hope or Hype?; The Sources of Neuroexuberance; The Limits of Behavioral Neuroscience; The Radical Challenges of Neuroscience to Law; Legal Relevance; The Case for Cautious Optimism; Conclusion; Chapter 8: Feminism, Violence, and the State; Critique of the Defense; Implications for Policy; Works Cited; Part II: War, Terrorism, and National Sovereignty; Chapter 9: Military Psychological Operations: Ethics and Policy Considerations; Introduction; Definitions and Background; Questions
What Is Special About PSYOP?Ethical and Legal Considerations; Ethics for Cyber Warfare?; What Is the Goal of Countering Psychological Operations?; How to Respond to PSYOP?; A Countercampaign and Its Problems; Counter-PSYOP and Its Problems; Conclusion; Chapter 10: Against Interrogational Torture: Upholding a Troubled Taboo; The Stock Case Against Torture; Torture Defended; Torture and Theory; Conventionalism; The Rule of Law; Political Philosophy; Kantianism; Utilitarianism; Virtue Ethics; Natural Law; Conclusion; Chapter 11: The Use of Lethal Drones in the War on Terror
Two Opposing ArgumentsLesser Evil Argument; Targeted Killing Argument (TKA); Risk-Free Killing and Asymmetric War; Chapter 12: The Myth of Senseless Violence and the Problem of Terrorism; Rational Violence; Moral Illusions; Ideological Illusions; Pure Evil; The Violence of the Islamic State; Disbelief About Belief; Conclusion; Chapter 13: A Defense of Open Borders; The Right to Immigrate; Economic Benefits; The Costs of Immigration; National Partiality; Self-determination; Conclusion; Chapter 14: Immigration Enforcement and Fairness to Would-Be Immigrants; Rules and Exceptions
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy