Barbara H. Fried

Barbara H. Fried, William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, is author of The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. She is also a member of the board of the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University.

Emotional Empathy Is Not the Culprit

What we need is not less empathy but more rationality.

  • Barbara H. Fried

Beyond Blame — Final Response

I am skeptical about claims of moral blameworthiness.

  • Barbara H. Fried

Beyond Blame

The philosophy of personal responsibility has ruined criminal justice and economic policy. It’s time to move past blame.

  • Barbara H. Fried
with responses from
  • Paul Bloom
  • Christine M. Korsgaard
  • Gideon Rosen
  • Erin Kelly
  • Brian Leiter
  • Adriaan Lanni
  • George Sher
  • Mike Konczal
  • T. M. Scanlon

The Limits of Personal Responsibility

A public conversation about personal responsibility has to acknowledge the limits of human rationality.

  • Barbara H. Fried
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