Darley, a social psychologist), has gradually developed a theory of punishment called empirical desert. Empirical desert is … variation on punishment locale or length.Examining Prof. Kolber's work through the lens of empirical desert reveals potential …

This essay reviews Kristján Kristjánsson's 'Justice and Desert-Based Emotions' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), a complex … but engaging book about desert in the context of two other grand philosophical themes: justice and the emotions. The book …'s rigorous methodology argues that those desert-based emotions that are normally termed 'negative' (anger, for example, and …