Is There a Case That Says Certain People Aren't Intelligent Enough to Understand Them?

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I want to make a pitch for not feeling these motions or expressing these emotions strategically though sometimes perhaps that's helpful. I think this is actually one of the deepest questions for the criminal justice system as we learn more about human limitations and people in different circumstances. We have some doubt that these people are appropriate objects of punishment in part because we have some doubt they're appropriate objects of of condemnation. There's a kind of question that is confronted constantly within thecriminal justice system about who's responsible for what they do yeah and who's not.

Scott Hershovitz is the Thomas G. and Mabel Long Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He directs the University’s Law and Ethics Program and he co-edits Legal Theory. Scott writes about law and philosophy. His academic work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, and Ethics, among other places. In addition, he writes occasional essays about philosophy for the New York Times. Before joining the Michigan faculty, he served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court and an attorney-advisor on the appellate staff of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Eric and Scott discuss his new book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy withMy Kids

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Scott Hershovitz and I Discuss What We Can Learn By Thinking Like a Kid and …

His book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
Defining philosophy as the art of thinking
How kids are natural philosophers and ask interesting questions
Learning to think critically about our own ideas
Distinguishing between what we think we should do and what we want to do
The story of the Ship of Theseus and how we can compare it to our own identity
How identity can be used as a tool in how we see ourselves in the world in both a negative and positive way
Relativism and how we each get our own truth
Epistemic bubbles and echo chambers
What we can learn when we talk to people who think differently than us
How we can look at other people with both objective or participant attitudes, depending on the circumstances
Tempering our perspectives when we learn about others’ circumstances