Animal Punishment and the Conditions of Responsibility.

In this essay I distinguish categories of animals by their mental capacities. I then discuss whether punishment can be appropriate for animals of each category, and if so what form punishment may appropriately take for animals of each category. The aim is to illuminate each type of punishment throug...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Papers Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 69 - 106
Autor principal: Garthoff, Jon
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2020
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Sumario:In this essay I distinguish categories of animals by their mental capacities. I then discuss whether punishment can be appropriate for animals of each category, and if so what form punishment may appropriately take for animals of each category. The aim is to illuminate each type of punishment through comparison and contrast with the others. This both forestalls the overintellectualization of punishment which arises from viewing humans as the only paradigm case and forestalls the underintellectualization of human punishment which results from making no essential reference, in an account of human punishment, to the human capacity for specifically critical reasoning.