Publications in English
List of Titles Which Appeared in Hebrew
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Research Areas: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Law, Jewish Philosophy

Publications in English

Books

Authored

1. Moral Dilemmas, Value Inquiry Book Series, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.
2. Religion and Morality, Value Inquiry Book Series, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995
   (with Avi Sagi)
   
   Edited
   
3. Moral Luck, State University of New York Press, 1993.
4. Virtue Ethics, Edinburgh University Press (co-published by Georgetown U.P.), 1997.
   

1. "The Debate Over the So-Called Reality of Moral Dilemmas," Philosophical Papers 19 (1990): 191-211.
2. "Moral and Epistemic Luck," Ratio 4 (1991): 146-156.
3. "A New Argument for Genuine Moral Dilemmas", The Journal of Value Inquiry 26 (1992): 565-571.
4. "Modesty, Pride and Realistic Self-Assessment," The Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1992): 420-438.
5. "The Difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant," in: Ellen Spolsky (ed.), Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory, State University of New York Press, 1993, pp. 71-90.
6. "Divine Command Morality and the Jewish Tradition," The Journal of Religious Ethics 23 (1995): 49-68 (with Avi Sagi).
7. "Self-assessment, Self-esteem and Self-acceptance," Journal of Moral Education 22 (1993): 55-62.
8. "Doing Without Mercy," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 32 (1994): 331-354.
9. "Hard Cases and Moral Dilemmas," Law and Philosophy 15 (1996): 117-148.
10. "Virtue Ethics and Psychology," The International Journal of Applied Philosophy 9 (1995): 43-50.
11. "Who Needs Imperfect Duties?" American Philosophical Quarterly 33 (1996), 211-224.
12. "Hypocrisy and Self-Deception," Philosophical Psychology 10 (1997): 57-75.
13. "Depth, Truth and Morality," Sophia 36 (1997): 124-139.
14. "The Time to Punish and the Problem of Moral Luck," The Journal of Applied Philosophy 14 (1997): 129-136.
15. "Jus in Bello and the Intifada," in Tomis Kapitan (ed.) Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997, pp. 133-156.
16. "Moral Luck." Routledge New Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1998.
17. "Judaism and Democracy: the Current Debate," in Daniel Frank (ed.), On Liberty: Jewish Perspectives, London: Curzon, 1999, pp. 129-149.
18. "Hurting Religious Feelings," Democratic Culture 3 (2000): 199-214.
19. "Humiliation, Dignity and Self-Respect," Philosophical Psychology 13 (2000): 523-540. Reprinted in Eckart Klein & David Kretzmer (eds.), The Concept of Human Dignity in Human
    Rights Discourse, The Hague: Kluwer, 2002, pp. 209-230.
20. "Tragic Decisions: Removing Jewish Children from their Christian Guardians in Post-War Europe," in Eve Garrrad and Geoffrey Scarre (eds.), Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust, London: Ashgate Press, 2003, pp. 169-200.
21. "Man-Made Boundaries and Man-Made Holiness in the Jewish Tradition," in Allen Buchanan and Margaret Moore (eds.),States, Nations, and Borders: The Ethics of Making Boundaries, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 41-53.
22. "The Morality of Assassination: A Response to Gross," Political Studies 51 (2003): 852-856.
23. "Targeted Killing," Theoretical Inquiries in Law 5 (2003): 63-82.
24. "The Right to Parenthood: An Argument for a Narrow Argument," Ethical Perspectives 10 (2003): 224-235.
25. "Why Freedom of Religion Does Not Include Freedom from Religion," Law and Philosophy 24 (2005): 467-508 (with Gidi Sapir).
26. "Doors, Keys and Moral Luck: A Reply to Domsky," Journal of Philosophy 102 (2005): 422-436.
27. "Negative Theology and the Meaning of the Commandments in Modern Orthodoxy," Tradition 39 (2005): 55-68.
28. "Moral Tragedies, Supreme Emergencies and National-Defense," Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2006): 311-322.
29. "Supreme Emergencies Revisited," Ethics 116 (2006): 58-79.
30. "Trauma, Retribution, and Forgiveness," in Austin Sarat, Nadav Davidovitch and Michal Alberstein (eds.), Trauma and Memory, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007, pp. 245-262.
31. "Mind the Gap: A Reply to Ripstein," Theoretical Inquiries in Law Forum 9 (2008), No. 1, Article 14.
32. "The Success Condition for Legitimate Self-Defense," Ethics 118 (2008): 659-686
33. "Nomos Without Narrative: A Reply to Talia Fisher," Theoretical Inquiries in Law Forum 9 (2008) No. 2, Article 3.
34. "Religious Marriage in a Liberal State," Cardozo Law Review 30 (2009): 2855-2880 (with Gidi Sapir).
35. “Halakha and Morality: A Few Methodological Considerations,” Journal of Textual Reasoning 6 (2010).
    The issue includes responses to my paper by Shalom Karmy, Suzanne Stone, Menachem Kellner, Devorah Schoenfeld, Mark Rosen, and then my Reply.
36. “Can Wars Be Fought Justly? The Necessity Condition Put to the Test,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 8 (2011): 435-451.
37. "Can Just War Theory Justify Targeted Killing? An Investigation into Three Models," in Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin and Andrew Altman (eds.), Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 90-111.
38. “Gardner on the Wrongness of Rape,” Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 4 (2012): 105-109.

1. Menachem Kellner, Must a Jew Believe Anything? Journal of Jewish Studies 52 (2001): 202-206.
2. James Whitman, Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe, Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 17 (2005): 15-22.