Barret Emerick and Audrey Yap have written a humanistic book, in the best sense of that term. Their work is rigorous, carefully argued, empirically informed, original, and focused on making life better. They take both responsibility and forgiveness seriously, asking how to heal after harm in a way that respects both the perpetrator and the victim of that harm. This book connects prison abolition, conflict resolution, feminism, and much more into an important new vision of individual and societal transformation.
Barret Emerick and Audrey Yap have written a humanistic book, in the best sense of that term. Their work is rigorous, carefully argued, empirically informed, original, and focused on making life better. They take both responsibility and forgiveness seriously, asking how to heal after harm in a way that respects both the perpetrator and the victim of that harm. This book connects prison abolition, conflict resolution, feminism, and much more into an important new vision of individual and societal transformation.
Barrett Emerick is associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He works in normative ethics, social philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, and philosophy of race (as well as how each of these areas relate to each other).
Audrey Yap is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Victoria. he has published articles in Hypatia, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Argumentation, Synthese, Erkenntnis, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.