The Work of Jeffrie G. Murphy: Introduction

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This symposium honors the work and writings of Jeffrie G. Murphy, Regents' Professor Law, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Murphy is the author of over ten books and edited anthologies as well as more than seventy-five articles and entries in areas such as philosophy of law, social philosophy, and moral psychology, and in a vast range of journals including Ethics, Criminal Justice Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Philosophical Studies, The Monist, Social Philosophy and Policy, and Arizona Law Review. His writings have been influential in multiple areas because of his wide range of interests, including Hume, Kant, punishment and capital punishment, retribution, legal moralism, resentment and vindictiveness, forgiveness, equal treatment, …