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Item A Naturalistic Theory of Justice: Critical Commentary on, and Selected Readings from C.I. Lewis' Ethics(University Press of America, Inc., 1981-08) Luizzi, Vincent L.This book is designed to acquaint the reader with C.I. Lewis' ethics by providing critical commentary on Lewis' work in addition to reprinting some of Lewis' writings in ethics. The commentary is not meant to be a substitute for the complete work in ethics that Lewis was preparing before his death but merely a systematic study of some central aspects of his thought in ethics.Item Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-04-23) Hampton, Jordan O.; Hyndman, Timothy H.; Allen, Benjamin L.; Fischer, BobEthical food choices have become an important societal theme in post-industrial countries. Many consumers are particularly interested in the animal welfare implications of the various foods they may choose to consume. However, concepts in animal welfare are rapidly evolving towards consideration of all animals (including wildlife) in contemporary approaches such as “One Welfare”. This approach requires recognition that negative impacts (harms) may be intentional and obvious (e.g., slaughter of livestock) but also include the under-appreciated indirect or unintentional harms that often impact wildlife (e.g., land clearing). This is especially true in the Anthropocene, where impacts on non-human life are almost ubiquitous across all human activities. We applied the “harms” model of animal welfare assessment to several common food production systems and provide a framework for assessing the breadth (not intensity) of harms imposed. We considered all harms caused to wild as well as domestic animals, both direct effects and indirect effects. We described 21 forms of harm and considered how they applied to 16 forms of food production. Our analysis suggests that all food production systems harm animals to some degree and that the majority of these harms affect wildlife, not livestock. We conclude that the food production systems likely to impose the greatest overall breadth of harms to animals are intensive animal agriculture industries (e.g., dairy) that rely on a secondary food production system (e.g., cropping), while harvesting of locally available wild plants, mushrooms or seaweed is likely to impose the least harms. We present this conceptual analysis as a resource for those who want to begin considering the complex animal welfare trade-offs involved in their food choices.Item Book Review: A Matter of Principle by Robert Dworkin(Natural Law Society, 1987-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Book Review: A Theory of Criminal Justice by Hyman Gross(Oxford University Press, 1979-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Book Review: Jurisprudence: The Philosophy and Method of the Law by Edgar Bodenheimer(Natural Law Society, 1994-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Book Review: Justice, Human Nature, and Political Obligation by Mortan A. Kaplan(The Free Press, 1977-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Book Review: Law in Modern Society by Roberto Mangabeira Unger(1977-07-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Book Review: Law's Empire by Ronald Dworkin(Natural Law Society, 1992-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Don’t Demean “Invasives”: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-10) Abbate, C. E.; Fischer, BobIt is common for conservationists to refer to non-native species that have undesirable impacts on humans as "invasive". We argue that the classification of any species as "invasive" constitutes wrongful discrimination. Moreover, we argue that its being wrong to categorize a species as invasive is perfectly compatible with it being morally permissible to kill animals-assuming that conservationists "kill equally". It simply is not compatible with the double standard that conservationists tend to employ in their decisions about who lives and who dies.Item Elements of Natural Law in the Ethics of C.I. Lewis(Natural Law Society, 1982-07) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item How People Become Moral--Is Kohlberg Correct and Has He Told Us Enough?(Caddo Gap Press, 1978-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Human Nature and the Environment(African Centre for Technology Studies, 1994-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.; Oruka, H. OderaNo abstract prepared.Item In Search of People's Courts in China in 1999(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001-04) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Law as Acts of Citizens(2002-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.This paper shifts the focus of traditional conceptions of law from norms to norm-guided conduct of citizens and explores the viability of re-thinking law in this fashion. The project may be seen as an extension of the approach of the American Legal Realists who conceived law's essence as the activity of judges.Item Item Item New Balance, Evil, and the Scales of Justice(Rodopi Publishing, 2006-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item New Technologies, New Punishments, and New Thoughts about Punishment(1995-06-16) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.Item Philosophy in Legal Education(Association of American Law Schools, 1978-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.American legal education displays a privation when philosophy and its methods play no or only a casual role in molding the modern lawyer. The satisfaction of this need for philosophy brings with it multiple benefits for the law student. I hope to clarify and expand this thesis in what follows.Item Practical Reasoning in Natural Law Theories(Natural Law Society, 1982-07-01) Luizzi, Vincent L.No abstract prepared.