Jonathan Jacobs

Courses Recently Taught

• Medieval Theories of the Will
• The Metaethics of Virtue
• The Aims and Justification of State Punishment

Representative Publications

• Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Oxford University Press, (2010).
• Dimensions of Moral Theory: An Introduction to Metaethics and Moral Psychology, Blackwell, (2002).
• Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice, Cornell U. Press, (2001).
• “The Reasons of the Commandments: Rational Tradition Without Natural Law,” in press, in Reason, Religion and Natural Law: Plato to Spinoza, ed. J. Jacobs, Oxford University Press, (2012).
• “Reason, Will, and Human Action,” forthcoming in Blackwell History of Medieval Philosophy.
• “Forgiveness and Perfection,” in Ancient Forgiveness, edited by Charles Griswold and David Konstan, Cambridge University Press, (2012).
• “Criminal Justice and the Liberal Polity,” in Criminal Justice Ethics, August 2011.
• “The Epistemology of Moral Tradition: A Defense of a Maimonidean Thesis,” The Review of Metaphysics, September 2010.
• “Retributivism and Public Norms” in St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, (2004).
• “Punitiveness: A Philosophical Perspective,” in Criminal Justice Policy Review, Vol. 31 (7), 2020.
• “Meeting the Challenges to the Universality of Virtue,” in Virtue in Theory and Practice: Local or Universal? 2020, Routledge
• “Judaism, Pluralism, and Public Reason,” in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Summer 2020.
• “In Dialogue With Philosophy: Recovering the Moral Sciences Through Criminology, forthcoming in a Festschrift for Sir Anthony Bottoms, Criminology, Cambridge, (Ed.) Alison Liebling
• “Adam Smith on Resentment, Desert, and Justice” in Volume 12 of Adam Smith Review, ed. Fonna Forman, 2020.
• “Moral Education, Skills of Civility, and Virtue in the Public Sphere,” in Virtue in the Public Sphere, edited by James Arthur, Routledge, 2019.
• “Natural Law and Judaism,” in Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory, eds. Jonathan Crowe, Constance Lee, Edward Elgar Publisher, 2019.
• “Judaism and Philosophy of Law” in New Perspectives on Jewish Law, eds. Yonatan Brafman, Suzanne Stone, De Gruyter, forthcoming.
• “Censure, Sanction, and the Moral Psychology of Resentment and Punitiveness” in Penal Censure: Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory,a volume on the 40^th anniversary of Andre Von Hirsch’s Doing Justice. Hart Publishing, edited by Anthony Bottoms and Antje duBois-Pedain 2019.

Awards and Grants

• NEH Summer Seminar Director
• NEH Enduring Questions Grant
• Fulbright Scholar Grant
• American Philosophical Society Grant
• Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants
• Littauer Foundation Grants
• Hayek Fund for Scholar/Institute for Humane Studies Grant
• PSC/CUNY Grant