Matthew R Kramer

Objectivity and the Rule of Law

Objectivity and the Rule of Law

A Debate over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries

The Quality of Freedom

Where Law And Morality Meet

Hobbes and the Paradoxes of Political Origins

In the Realm of Legal and Moral Philosophy: Critical Encounters

Rights Wrongs and Responsibilties

Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff

For many years, Antony Duff has been one of the world's foremost philosophers of criminal law. This volume collects essays by leading criminal law theorists to explore the principal themes in his work. In a response to the essays, Duff clarifies and develops his position on central problems in crimi...

Liberalism with Excellence

During the past several decades, political philosophers have frequently clashed with one another over the question whether governments are morally required to remain neutral among reasonable conceptions of excellence and human flourishing. Whereas the numerous followers of John Rawls (and kindred ph...

Objectivity and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)

What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ways and to what degrees are they objective? Does anything of importance depend on the objectivity of law? These are some of the principal questions addressed by Matthew H. Kramer in this luci...

Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine (New Directions in Ethics)

In this major new work, Matthew Kramer seeks to establish two main conclusions. On the one hand, moral requirements are strongly objective. On the other hand, the objectivity of ethics is itself an ethical matter that rests primarily on ethical considerations. Moral realism - the doctrine that moral...

In Defense of Legal Positivism: Law without Trimmings

This book is an uncompromising defense of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets. The book concludes ...

The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Investigation of Evil and its Consequences

Debate has long been waged over the morality of capital punishment, with standard arguments in its favour being marshalled against familiar arguments that oppose the practice. In The Ethics of Capital Punishment, Matthew Kramer takes a fresh look at the philosophical arguments on which the legitimac...

Analysis of Generalized Linear Mixed Models in the Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences

Generalized Linear Mixed Models in the Agricultural and Natural ResourcesSciences provides readers with an understanding and appreciation for the design and analysis of mixed models for non-normally distributed data. It is the only publication of its kind directed specifically toward the agricultura...

Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology

Edited by leading contributors to the literature, Freedom: An Anthology is the most complete anthology on social, political and economic freedom ever compiled. Offers a broad guide to the vast literature on social, political and economic freedom. Contains selections from the best scholarship of ...