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53Is It Wrong to Intend to Do that Which It Is Wrong to Do?The Monist 70 (3): 316-329. 1987.Military deterrence by means of the threat to retaliate if attacked has traditionally involved two intentions—on the one hand, the unconditional intention to deter attack, and, on the other hand, the conditional intention to retaliate if attacked. Nuclear deterrence—that is, military deterrence using nuclear weapons—also involves both intentions, but at the cost of a moral quandary. On the one hand, there is the intention to deter attack in order to preserve peace and freedom. But, on the other …Read more
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36Whitehead's ontologyState University of New York Press. 1972.Introduction I. The Aim: Defining Whitehead's Categories of Existence Ontology is the study of being or beings. But what is being? Which are the beings? ...
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23Does Whitehead's Metaphysics Contain an Ethics?Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (4). 2001.
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30Whitehead's actual occasions and the new infinitesimalsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25 (1). 1989.
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24Time and ExperienceIn Michel Weber (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 653-663. 2008.
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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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26Global Policy and the United NationsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (1): 105-115. 2009.President Barack Obama should strive to realize the ideal goals expressed in the UN Charter. Accordingly, the concept of U.S. foreign policy should be replaced by a concept of UN global policy. Relatedly, the traditional concept of national security should be replaced by a cosmopolitan concept of global state and human security. Topics discussed include the role of the Security Council, the responsibility to protect (R2P), just war principles, UN peacekeeping operations, genocide in Darfur, trea…Read more
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16Before Military Force, Nonviolent Action: An Application of a Generalized Just War Principle of Last ResortPublic Affairs Quarterly 23 (2): 115-133. 2009.Traditionally, the just war principle of last resort requires that, before resorting to war, every reasonable alternative measure must be attempted. My view is that traditional just war principles should be generalized, so as to be applicable to military actions of all sorts—for example, armed humanitarian interventions and counterinsurgency operations. In this paper, such a generalized just war theory is presupposed. In particular, I shall presuppose a generalized last resort principle that req…Read more
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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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61Is There a Just Cause for Current U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan?International Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (1): 9-21. 2010.The current armed conflict in Afghanistan (briefly, the Afghan conflict) is viewed through the lens of a just war theory. In particular, the question stated by the title is explored by means of a generalized just cause principle. For brevity, empirical, practical, and legal issues about the Afghan conflict are mostly set aside. Hence a definite answer to the question is not proposed. Instead, the main aim is to clarify the question. Specifically, the question is amplified, by distinguishing puta…Read more
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89Nonlethal Weapons, Noncombatant Immunity, and Combatant Nonimmunity: A Study of Just War Theory (review)Philosophia 38 (3): 475-497. 2010.Frequently, the just war principle of noncombatant immunity is interpreted as morally prohibiting the intentional targeting of noncombatants. Apparently, many just war theorists assume that to target means to (intend to) kill. Now that effective nonlethal weapons have been envisaged, it should be evident that there is no conceptual connection between intentionally targeting and intentionally killing. For, using nonlethal weapons, there could be intentional targeting without intentional killing. …Read more
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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.