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Kenneth Einar Himma

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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Einar Himma is an American philosopher, author, lawyer, academic and lecturer. Born in Seattle, Himma earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in 1985, his master's from the University of California in 1987, and his doctorate of law from the University of Washington School of Law in 1990, before receiving his PhD in 2001 from the University of Washington for his thesis, "The Status of Legal Principles".

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From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis (2003) (555)
The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (2007) (305)
The Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of law (2004) (251)
Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (2000) (178)
Artificial agency, consciousness, and the criteria for moral agency: what properties must an artificial agent have to be a moral agent? (2009) (167)
The concept of information overload: A preliminary step in understanding the nature of a harmful information-related condition (2007) (89)
Inclusive Legal Positivism (2006) (61)
Intercultural Information Ethics (2008) (59)
There’s something about Mary: The moral value of things qua information objects (2004) (32)
Final Authority To Bind With Moral Mistakes: On The Explanatory Potential Of Inclusive Legal Positivism (2005) (29)
The justification of intellectual property: Contemporary philosophical disputes (2006) (26)
The Digital Divide: A Perspective for the Future (2009) (26)
Conceptual Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Conceptual Analysis and Methodology in Legal Theory (2015) (25)
Just Cause You're Smarter than Me Doesn't Give You a Right to Tell Me What to Do: Legitimate Authority and the Normal Justification Thesis (2005) (23)
The information gap , the digital divide , and the obligations of affluent nations * (2007) (22)
A dualist analysis of abortion: personhood and the concept of self qua experiential subject (2005) (22)
Do Philosophy and Sociology Mix? A Non-Essentialist Socio-Legal Positivist Analysis of the Concept of Law (2004) (21)
Active Response to Computer Intrusions (2005) (21)
The Authorisation of Coercive Enforcement Mechanisms as a Conceptually Necessary Feature of Law (2016) (21)
The Ethics of Tracing Hacker Attacks through the Machines of Innocent Persons (2004) (20)
Foundational issues in information ethics (2007) (20)
Substance and Method in Conceptual Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (2002) (16)
On the Definition of Unconscionable Racial and Sexual Slurs (2002) (16)
Justifying Intellectual Property Protection: Why the Interests of Content-Creators Usually Wins Over Everyone Else's (2005) (15)
Privacy vs. Security: Why Privacy is Not an Absolute Value or Right (2007) (15)
The intercultural ethics agenda from the point of view of a moral objectivist (2008) (15)
The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution (2009) (14)
Hacking as Politically Motivated Digital Civil Disobedience: Is Hacktivism Morally Justified? (2005) (13)
Making Sense of Constitutional Disagreement: Legal Positivism, the Bill of Rights, and the Conventional Rule of Recognition in the United States (2006) (13)
The relationship between the uniqueness of computer ethics and its independence as a discipline in applied ethics (2004) (13)
What is a problem for all is a problem for none: Substance dualism, physicalism, and the mind-body problem (2005) (12)
Political online communities in Saudi Arabia: the major players (2008) (12)
Judicial Discretion and the Concept of Law (1999) (11)
Coercion and the Nature of Law (2020) (10)
Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking ,and Security (2006) (10)
Law’s Claim of Legitimate Authority (2006) (10)
The moral significance of the internet in information: Reflections on a fundamental moral right to information (2004) (10)
Internet security - hacking, counterhacking, and society (2007) (10)
Conceptual Analysis, the Naturalistic Turn, and Legal Philosophy (2006) (10)
The Application-Conditions for Design Inferences: Why the Design Arguments Need the Help of Other Arguments for God's Existence (2005) (10)
Information and Intellectual Property Protection: Evaluating the Claim that Information Should be Free (2005) (9)
The Ties that Bind: An Analysis of the Concept of Obligation (2007) (9)
The Instantiation Thesis and Raz's Critique of Inclusive Positivism (2001) (8)
Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counterhacking (2009) (8)
Eternally incorrigible: the continuing-sin response to the proportionality problem of hell (2003) (7)
AMBIGUOUSLY STUNG: (2002) (7)
Great Cases in Constitutional Law (2001) (7)
A Comprehensive Hartian Theory of Legal Obligation: Social Pressure, Coercive Enforcement, and the Legal Obligations of Citizens (2012) (7)
Thomson's Violinist and Conjoined Twins (1999) (7)
H.L.A. HART AND THE PRACTICAL DIFFERENCE THESIS (2000) (6)
Justifying legal protection of intellectual property: the interests argument (2008) (6)
Targeting the innocent: Active defense and the moral immunity of innocent persons from aggression (2004) (6)
Law, liberty, and the rule of law (2013) (6)
A Critique of UNOS Liver Allocation Policy (1999) (6)
A Preliminary Step in Understanding the Nature of a Harmful Information-Related Condition: An Analysis of the Concept of Information Overload (2007) (6)
Toward a Lockean Moral Justification of Legal Protection of Intellectual Property (2013) (6)
Artificial intelligence in Buddhist perspective (2008) (6)
Discrimination and Disidentification: The Fair-Start Defense of Affirmative Action (2001) (5)
The Ethics of Subjecting a Child to the Risk of Eternal Torment: A Reply to Shawn Bawulski (2016) (5)
Can There Really Be Law in a Society of Angels (2016) (5)
The Authorization of Coercive Enforcement Mechanisms as a Conceptually Necessary Feature of Law (2016) (5)
Trouble in Law's Empire: Rethinking Dworkin's Third Theory of Law (2003) (5)
The free-will defence: evil and the moral value of free will (2009) (4)
Morality and the Nature of Law (2019) (4)
INCORPORATIONISM AND THE OBJECTIVITY OF MORAL NORMS (1999) (4)
Abundance, Rights, and Interests: Thinking about the Legitimacy of Intellectual Property Rights (2005) (4)
Understanding the Relationship between the U.S. Constitution and the Conventional Rule of Recognition (2008) (4)
The legitimacy of protecting intellectual property rights: The irrelevance of two conceptions of an information commons (2007) (4)
The library's legal answer book (2004) (4)
Birth as a Grave Misfortune: The Traditional Doctrine of Hell and Christian Salvific Exclusivism (2009) (4)
The Digital Divide: Information Technologies and the Obligation to Alleviate Poverty (2014) (3)
Separation, Risk, and the Necessity of Privacy to Well-Being: A Comment on Adam Moore's Toward Informational Privacy Rights (2008) (3)
The Legitimacy of Intellectual Property Rights: The Irrelevance of Two Conceptions of an Information Commons (2013) (3)
Legal, Social, and Ethical Issues (2004) (3)
Positivism, Naturalism and the Obligation to Obey Law (1998) (3)
William Hasker The Triumph of God over Evil: Theodicy for a World of Suffering (Downers Grove IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008). US$20.00 (Pbk). Pp. 228. ISBN 0 8308 2804 4; 978 0 8308 2804 3. (2011) (3)
What philosophy of mind can tell us about the morality of abortion: personhood, materialism, and the existence of self. (2003) (3)
Christian Faith Without Belief That God Exists: A Defense of Pojman’s Conception of Faith (2006) (3)
THE RULE OF RECOGNITION AND THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (2008) (3)
The Nature of Law: Philosophical Issues in Conceptual Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (2011) (3)
It's the Rationale that Counts: A Reply to Newton (2002) (3)
Finding a high road: The moral case for Salvific Pluralism (2001) (3)
The Problem of Explaining Phenomenal Selfhood: A Comment on Thomas Metzinger's Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (2005) (2)
Digital Technologies and the Obligation to Alleviate Poverty: The Digital Divide, Information Gap and Two Forms of Poverty (2012) (2)
The Rule of Law, Validity Criteria, and Judicial Supremacy (2012) (2)
The Problem of Explaining Phenomenal Selfhood: A Comment on Thomas Metzinger's Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (2005) (2)
An Unjust Dogma: Why a Special Right to Religion Wrongly Discriminates Against Non-Religious Worldviews (2017) (2)
Moral Biocentrism and the Adaptive Value of Consciousness (2004) (2)
Prior probabilities and confirmation theory: A problem with the fine-tuning argument (2002) (2)
Towards a Theory of Legitimate Access: Morally Legitimate Authority and the Right of Citizens to Access the Civil Justice System (2004) (2)
The application-conditions for design inferences: Why the design arguments need the help of other arguments for God’s existence (2005) (2)
Plantinga's version of the free-will argument: the good and evil that free beings do (2009) (2)
Positivism and Interpreting Legal Content: Does Law Call for a Moral Semantics? (2009) (2)
No Harm, No Foul: Abortion and the Implications of Fetal Innocence (2002) (2)
The Epistemic Sense of the Pedigree Thesis (1999) (2)
The Conceptual Function of Law: Law, Coercion, and Keeping the Peace (2017) (2)
Is the Concept of Obligation Moralized? (2018) (2)
Courts, interpretation, the rule of law (2014) (2)
Hart and Austin Together Again for the First Time: Coercive Enforcement and the Theory of Legal Obligation (2012) (1)
WALUCHOW’S DEFENSE OF INCLUSIVE POSITIVISM (1999) (1)
What's So Damn Special About Religion, Anyway? (Review Essay of Brian Leiter, Why Tolerate Religion?) (2013) (1)
The Problems of Legal Normativity and Legal Obligation (2015) (1)
The Problem of Unresolved Wrongdoing (2010) (1)
Can There Be Law in a Society of Angels? (2020) (1)
NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND LAW (2005) (1)
Book Review: Beyond our control? Confronting the limits of our legal system in the age of cyberspace (2003) (1)
Law, morality, and legal positivism : proceedings of the 21st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR); Lund, Sweden, 12-18, August 2003 (2004) (1)
Towards a Comprehensive Positivist Theory of Legal Obligation (2011) (1)
Why Religious Freedom Does Not Warrant Protection by a Special Right (2015) (1)
Simon Rogerson: making a difference 2005 (2009) (1)
On the Justification of Fundamental Constitutional Rights (2016) (1)
Ontological Arguments for God's Existence (2015) (1)
If You Ain't in Prison, You Just Got Lucky: Luck, Culpability, and the Retributivist Justification of Punishment (2013) (1)
A critique of UNOS liver allocation policy. United Network for Organ Sharing. (1999) (1)
Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy, RUSSELL HARDIN. Oxford University Press, 2000, 250 pages (2003) (1)
Internet Security (2006) (1)
Reply to Burdick: constraining physician discretion. (2000) (1)
How much a theory of law can tell us about the nature of morality: a response to Mark Greenberg’s How facts make law (2013) (1)
The Conceptual Function of Law (2018) (1)
How Much Can a Theory of Law Tell Us about the Nature of Morality: A Response to Mark Greenberg's 'How Facts Make Law' (2014) (1)
Design Arguments for the Existence of God (2015) (1)
Is the Concept of Obligation Moralized? (2017) (1)
James Allan , A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law . Reviewed by (2000) (1)
Revisiting Raz: Inclusive Legal Positivism and Our Concept of Authority (2006) (1)
What Exactly is the Problem with Judicial Supremacy? The Rule of Law, Moral Legitimacy, and the Construction of Constitutional Law (2013) (0)
Conceptual Methodology and Natural Law Theories (2019) (0)
Information and the Limits of Unlimited Supply (2014) (0)
Dworkin: A New Link in the Chain (2017) (0)
Introduction: What Do You Mean by “Law,” Anyway? (2019) (0)
Conceptual and Metaphysical Modalities in Jurisprudence (2016) (0)
The Coercion Thesis and the How Problem of Legal Normativity (2020) (0)
Law, Coercive Enforcement, and Practical Reason (2017) (0)
Brian Leiter, ed. , Objectivity in Law and Morals . Reviewed by (2001) (0)
Immodesty in Dworkin’s Theory (2016) (0)
Intellectual Property (2021) (0)
Explaining why this body gives rise to me qua subject instead of someone else: an argument for classical substance dualism (2010) (0)
Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x + 326 pp. (2000) (0)
The Prohibition Against Torture: Is Torture Ever Permissible? (2007) (0)
Design Inferences, Fine-Tuning, and the Prior Probability of Divine Intelligent Agency: What the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows 1 (2017) (0)
To Whom the Rules Apply (2019) (0)
The Coercion Thesis and the Content Problem of Legal Normativity (2020) (0)
The Logic of Showing Possibility Claims: A Positive Argument for Inclusive Legal Positivism and Moral Grounds of Law (2014) (0)
Authority, Moral Criteria of Validity, and Conceptual Confusion (2019) (0)
Immodesty in Dworkin's 'Third' Theory: Modest Conceptual Analysis, Immodest Conceptual Analysis, and the Lines Dividing Conceptual and Other Kinds of Theory of Law (2014) (0)
Book Review: Morality and Law in Cyberspace (2004) (0)
Richard Spinello and Maria Bottis: Understanding the debate on the legal protection of moral intellectual property interests: review essay of A Defense of Intellectual Property Rights (2011) (0)
Assessing the Prohibition Against Torture (2007) (0)
Legal Positivism and the Possibility of Moral Criteria of Validity (2019) (0)
The Coercion Thesis (2020) (0)
Book Review (2014) (0)
The Complexities of Organ Allocation Policies (2000) (0)
Coercive Sanctions and International Law (2020) (0)
Rethinking the Traditional Interpretation of Anti-Positivist Theories (2019) (0)
Why Law Can't Claim: What Law Would Claim If it Could (2015) (0)
The moral legitimacy of intellectual property and copyright as policy and code: Librarians, pirates, and the myth of the intellectual commons (2006) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2011) (0)
Thomas May , Autonomy, Authority and Moral Responsibility . Reviewed by (1999) (0)
Unpacking Normativity: Conceptual, Normative, and Descriptive Issues (2018) (0)
Information Scarcity and the Legitimacy of Legal Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (2014) (0)
Coercion and the Conceptual Force of Law (2016) (0)
Robert P. George , In Defense of Natural Law . Reviewed by (2000) (0)
What Law Must Be Able to Do: The Coercion Thesis and the Need to Keep the Peace (2020) (0)
Relationships Between Law and Morality (2019) (0)
I CAN'T HELP WHAT I BELIEVE: THE MORAL CASE AGAINST RELIGIOUS EXCLUSIVIST DOCTRINES (2018) (0)
Experimental Theology: The Key to Science and Wisdom? (2007) (0)
Constitutionalism, Judicial Supremacy, and Judicial Review: Waluchow's Defense of Judicial Review against Waldron (2009) (0)
Don Gotterbarn: making a difference 2002 (2009) (0)
Lessons from Hart: A Reply to Waluchow (2011) (0)
Desert, Entitlement, and Affirmative Action: A Response to Francis Beckwith (2002) (0)
Keith Burgess-Jackson , Rape: A Philosophical Investigation . Reviewed by (1998) (0)
HARM, SHARM, AND ONE EXTREMELY CREEPY ARGUMENT: A REPLY TO MARK C. MURPHY (2004) (0)
Onora O'Neill, Bounds of Justice (2002) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Practical Authority as a Source of Reasons to Comply (2022) (0)
A Prima Facie Case for the Coercion Thesis: Sanctions as a Paradigmatic Feature of Municipal Law (2020) (0)
Three Conceptual Problems of Legal Normativity: The Logical Space of Reasons (2020) (0)
A note on fatalism (1998) (0)
Methodology and the Nature of Law (2020) (0)
The Coercion Thesis and the Order Problem of Legal Normativity (2020) (0)
Bringing Hart and Raz to the Table: Coleman's Compatibility Thesis (2001) (0)
Inclusive Positivism and the Arguments from Authority (2019) (0)
Response to “Commentary on Thomson's Violinist and Conjoined Twins” by John K. Davis (CQ Vol 8, No 4) (2000) (0)
Philosophy in Review Kenneth Einar Himma, "Morality and the Nature of Law." (2020) (0)
Book Review (2014) (0)
THE RETRIBUTIVIST JUSTIFICATION OF PUNISHMENT by (2018) (0)
Necessary Features of Law (2017) (0)
Facts, Artifacts, and Law-Given Reasons (2022) (0)
The Conceptual Possibility of Moral Criteria of Legal Validity (2019) (0)
Missing a piece: legal positivism and the problem of legal obligation (2007) (0)
Does it really mather wheter a judicial decision is morally legitimate? The practical implications of judicial illegitimacy in a otherwiselegitimate state (2007) (0)

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