Sayid Bnefsi

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I am a law and philosophy scholar. I am based in New York City, and I work at Fairfield University as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

In 2024-25, I did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. In 2023, I did a predoctoral fellowship at the University of Salzburg in Austria. In 2024, I finished the JD/PhD program at UC, Irvine.

The Difference of Differential Punishment, in 19 Criminal Law and Philosophy 421 (2025) (Article)

Willful Ignorance in Law and Epistemology, in 204 Synthese 171 (2024) (Article)

Compensatory Preliminary Damages: Access to Justice as Corrective Justice, in 27 CUNY Law Review 70 (2024) (Note)

Future Bias and Regret, in David Jakobsen, Peter Øhrstrøm & Per Hasle (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Time 1 (2023) Aalborg: Aalborg University Press (Chapter)

Epistemic Isomorphism, in 53(4) Metaphilosophy 543 (2022) (Article)

Great Risks from Small Benefits Grow, in 49 Philosophia 603 (2021) (Essay)

The Argument from Sideways Music, in 9(1) Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 64 (2020) (Essay)

Future Bias and Presentism, in David Jakobsen, Per Hasle & Peter Øhrstrøm (eds.), The Metaphysics of Time 281 (2020) Aalborg: Aalborg University Press (Chapter)

B-Theory and Time Biases, in Patrick Blackburn, Per Hasle & Peter Øhrstrøm (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Time 41 (Vol. 2) (2019) Aalborg: Aalborg University Press (Chapter)

My work explores philosophical questions about law.  Lately, these questions are about how law responds to criminal or civil cases where the responsibility, culpability, or liability of a party comes apart in ways that seem to threaten the moral or rational integrity of law.