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15Relation instances and musical soundsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 78 (2). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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15Whitehead’s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy (review)Process Studies 38 (1): 153-157. 2009.
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12Alfred North Whitehead, 1861–1947In Armen T. Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Subjectivity Space‐Time Valuation.
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11South Sudan IndependenceInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (2): 117-134. 2010.We investigate how the just cause principle is applicable to contingency planning about armed interventions in civil wars that are somewhat likely to occur in the future. According to a 2005 peace agreement that formally ended a civil war between the Sudanese government in Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, a referendum on South Sudan independence is to be held no later than January 9, 2011. Close observers of Sudan warn that this promise of an independence referendum might not be …Read more
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10Rethinking the Just War Tradition (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2007.The just war tradition is an evolving body of tenets for determining when resorting to war is just and how war may be justly executed. Rethinking the Just War Tradition provides a timely exploration in light of new security threats that have emerged since the end of the Cold War, including ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, threats of terror attacks, and genocidal conflicts within states. The contributors are philosophers, political scientists, a U.S. Army officer, and a senior analyst at the…Read more
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7Is Kant’s Ethics Overly Demanding?The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 44 127-132. 1998.Is Kant’s "Formula of the End in Itself" overly demanding? In addressing this question, I sketch a conception of co-obligation, that is, a sort of moral requirement that holds, not of persons distributively, but of persons collectively. I then raise a problem of devolution: How does a co-obligation for all persons devolve upon me? For instance, given that we must maximize happiness, it does not seem to follow that I must always act so as to maximize happiness. In partial answer to this problem, …Read more
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6The Ethics of Armed Conflict: A Cosmopolitan Just War TheoryEdinburgh University Press. 2014.Just war theory exists to stop armies and countries from using armed force without good cause. But how can we judge whether a war is just? In this original book, John W. Lango takes some distinctive approaches to the ethics of armed conflict. DT A revisionist approach that involves generalising traditional just war principles, so that they are applicable by all sorts of responsible agents to all forms of armed conflict DT A cosmopolitan approach that features the Security Council DT A preventive…Read more
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2Why can sounds be structured as music?Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 49-62. 2012.
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1Can Specific Rules be Deduced from Moral Principles?In Michel Weber Pierfrancesco Basile (ed.), Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality, Ontos Verlag. pp. 221-240. 2006.
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Wolfe Mays, "Whitehead's Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics: An Introduction to His Thought" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 15 (3): 263. 1979.
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Granville C. Henry, "Forms of Concrescence: Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy and Computer Programming Structures" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (3): 727. 1994.
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Military operations by armed UN peacekeeping missions : an application of generalized just war principlesIn Ted van Baarda & Désirée Verweij (eds.), The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare: counter-terrorism, democratic values and military ethics, Martinus Nijhoff. 2009.
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George R. Lucas, Jr., "The Rehabilitation of Whitehead: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 26 (4): 540. 1990.
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Whitehead's metaphysical systemIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Searching for New Contrasts: Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophsiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind, eds. Franz G. Riffert and Michel Weber (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (4): 826-831. 2004.
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Lewis S. Ford, "The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics, 1925-1929" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21 (4): 563. 1985.