Christopher Bennett
BA Stirling, MA, PhD Sheffield
Christopher Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in the department. He joined the department in 2001, having spent the previous year teaching at the University of Edinburgh. His interests are in moral, political and legal philosophy. He also has interests in moral psychology and the philosophy of the emotions. His current research is on the one hand on punishment, sentencing and the philosophy of the criminal law, and on the other on the philosophy of the emotions, particularly their relation to moral philosophy. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Selected publications
"Expressive Punishment and Political Authority", Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (2011, forthcoming)
The Apology Ritual: A Philosophical Theory of Punishment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
"Personal and Redemptive Forgiveness", European Journal of Philosophy vol. 11 no. 2 (2003), pp. 127-144
"The Varieties of Retributive Experience", Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 48 No. 207 (April 2002), pp. 145-163
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Postgraduate supervision
I am currently supervising PhD students working on the following topics:
• Virtue ethics and political philosophy
• Global justice
• Autonomy in medical ethics
Contact
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