Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

1.3k citations
45 papers · 284 indexed · h-index 9
Topics
Free Will and Agency (25 papers)War, Ethics, and Justification (19 papers)Torture, Ethics, and Law (14 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesNetherlands

In The Last Decade

Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

38 papers receiving 262 citations

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Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
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  • Cognitive Neuroscience 192
  • Philosophy 160
  • Sociology and Political Science 128
  • Political Science and International Relations 62
  • Law 62
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All Works

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Defense and Desert: When Reasons Don't Share
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Consent, Culpability, and the Law of Rape
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Prevention, Wrongdoing, and the Harm Principle's Breaking Point
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Culpable Aggression: The Basis for Moral Liability to Defensive Killing
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Danger: The Ethics of Preemptive Action
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Inchoate Crimes at the Prevention/Punishment Divide
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Beyond Crime and Commitment: Justifying Liberty Deprivations of the Dangerous and Responsible
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Self-Defense, Permissions, and the Means Principle: A Reply to Quong
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The Unsolved Mysteries of Causation and Responsibility
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Justifying 'Killing in Self-Defence'
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The Perils of Forgetting Fairness
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Justifying killing in self-defense
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Self-Defense and the State
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Culpable Acts of Risk Creation
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A Reckless Response to Rape: A Reply to Ayres and Baker
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Defending Imminence: From Battered Women to Iraq
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About Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

Kimberly Kessler Ferzan is a scholar working on Philosophy, Law and Cognitive Neuroscience, having authored 45 papers that have together received 284 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Free Will and Agency (25 papers), War, Ethics, and Justification (19 papers) and Torture, Ethics, and Law (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Philosophy (160 citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (192 citations) and Law (62 citations). Kimberly Kessler Ferzan has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Larry Alexander, Stephen J. Morse, Lawrence A. Alexander, Paul H. Robinson and Stephen P. Garvey. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), Legal Theory and Law and Philosophy.

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