Episode 66: Overpunishment with Saul Smilansky Artwork

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Episode 66: Overpunishment with Saul Smilansky

October 23, 2023 • Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer • Season 7 • Episode 6

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In this episode, we talk with Saul Smilansky about overpunishment, focusing on the question of whether overpunishing a guilty person is morally worse than punishing an innocent person. We also briefly discuss Saul's work on free will and illusion.

Saul's website: https://www.saulsmilansky.com/

Saul's book, Free Will and Illusion: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/free-will-and-illusion-9780199252596?q=saul%20smilanski%20free%20will&lang=en&cc=us

Saul's paper, "Overpunishment and the Punishment of the Innocent": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phib.12235

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