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The piece on the
decent person below was prompted by the observation that very little
theoretical attention is paid to that notion, although that term appears
rather often in the literature on moral philosophy. The piece on "Racial
Profiling," joint with Richard Zeckhauser, emerged from an annual joint
session between the ethics and statistics classes of the MPP program at the
Kennedy School. The subject of racial profiling is ideal for exploring how
ethical and statistical reasoning apply to the same scenario. Richard
Zeckhauser and I wrote this piece because there is fairly little systematic
reflection on racial profiling. Given its history, the term tends to be used
pejoratively, as a term criticizing police tactics, and it is generally
overlooked that there really are different issues here that need to be
considered separately -- police abuse, the use of race in police tactics,
and the disproportionate use of race in such contexts. Our paper is
concerned with offering a moral evaluation of the second issue, both from a
consequentialist and from a non-consequentialist standpoint. Annabelle Lever
and Kaspar Lippert-Rasmussen wrote critical responses to this, and in 2006
the Eastern APA included a symposium on these issues. On that occasion I
presented a paper responding to these criticisms ("Racial Profiling: A
Response to Two Critics.")
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"Racial
Profiling: A Reply to Two Critics" |
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Criminal Justice Ethics 26 (1) (APA Symposium on Racial Profiling): pp 4-20
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"Racial
Profiling" |
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Philosophy and Public Affairs,
April 2004.
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"The
Morally Decent Person" |
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The
Southern Journal of Philosophy (2000), Vol. XXXVIII, pp 263-279
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