Coercion / / Alan Wertheimer.
Wertheimer attempts to move beyond previous theories of coercion by conducting a fairly extensive survey of the way in which cases involving coercion have been treated by American courts. This impressive project occupies the first half of the book, where he makes a convincing case that there is a fa...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE. INTRODUCTION
- Part One: Law
- Two. CONTRACTS
- THREE. TORTS: ASSUMED RISK AND INFORMED CONSENT
- FOUR. MARRIAGE, ADOPTION, AND WILLS
- FIVE. BLACKMAIL AND COERCIVE SPEECH
- SIX. CONFESSIONS AND SEARCHES
- SEVEN. PLEA BARGAINING
- EIGHT. DURESS AND NECESSITY AS DEFENSES IN THE CRIMINAL LAW
- NINE. COERCION AND THE LAW: CONCLUSION
- Part Two: Philosophy
- TEN. THE LANGUAGE OF COERCION
- ELEVEN. NO CHOICE
- TWELVE. COERCIVE PROPOSALS: I
- THIRTEEN. COERCIVE PROPOSALS: II
- FOURTEEN. MORALITY, INTENTIONALITY, AND FREEDOM
- FIFTEEN. FROM COERCIVE PROPOSALS TO COERCION
- SIXTEEN. COERCION AND VOLUNTARINESS
- SEVENTEEN. CONCLUSION
- INDEX