Archive for April 1st, 2011
Talk on the Situation of Retribution
Posted by The Situationist Staff on April 1, 2011
Title: “Punishing Jaws: Experiments on Retribution Against Nonhuman Perpetrators”
When: Today – April 1st, at 12PM
Where: Griswold 110, Harvard Law School
Who: Situationist Contributor and Drexel Law School Professor Adam Benforado and University of Pennsylvania Psychology Professor Geoff Goodwin will discuss historical and empirical research regarding retributive punishment imposed upon animals. They will then use this evidence to draw inferences about human intuitions regarding punishment.
Free burritos!
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Related Situationist posts:
- The Criminals that Other Criminals Punish
- “Intuitions of Punishment?,”
- “Michael McCullough on the Situation of Revenge and Forgiveness,”
- “Steven Pinker Speaks at Harvard Law School,”
- “John Darley on “Justice as Intuitions” – Video,”
- “The Situation of Punishment (and Forgiveness),”
- “The Situation of Revenge,”
- “The Situation of Punishment,” and
- “Why We Punish.”
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