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193Controlling Technology: Contemporary Issues, edited by William B. Thompson (review)Teaching Philosophy 17 (2): 185-188. 1994.
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189Law as Technology AssessmentIn Poe Durbin Holly (ed.), Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol V, Jai Press. pp. 101-115. 1982.Law and technology , though not equivalent, are intertwined at every phase of a technology's "career." Any technology is directly or indirectly social, and as such becomes a target of regulation intrinsically or in relation to other technologies which it supports or opposes. Competing interests influence major decisions as to which technologies are encouraged or discouraged, heavily regulated or not, banned or not. Examples considered range from bounties to fuel, communication, and transporta…Read more
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185Elusive Victories: The American President at War, by Andrew J. Polsky (review)Michigan War Studies Review 2013 (043): 1-4. 2013.
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185WorkIn James Britt Holbrook (ed.), Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering, Vol. 4, 2nd Ed., Gale. pp. 543-549. 2015.The globalization of and technological challenge to the world's workers generate profound ethical problems. Suitable solutions will require governments and civil societies to move beyond the modern tendencies to divinize property rights and base people's income eligibility almost exclusively on their work. Some attention is being paid to the issues involved therein so as to achieve better work/life balance. In some places, in fact, resource-based wealth has been distributed to all citizens, …Read more
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183Gardner, L. C. Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare (review)Michigan War Studies Review 2014 (045). 2014.
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179Review of Roger Gottlieb, Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change (review)Teaching Philosophy 27 (1): 65-68. 2004.
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179Remembering My Self: Priest, Philosopher, Human BeingMascot Books. 2017.Some 120,000 priests have left the Catholic Church in the past 60 years, a third of these in the United States. This book is a personal account of the life of a man who left the priesthood and transitioned into a successful career as an academic. His case illustrates the reasons for leaving that are fairly typical. But above and beyond these it details some deeper systemic problems that he encountered first in the religious realm and then in the secular world into which he moved. Most of the…Read more
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179The Adversary System: Who Needs It?In M. Davis and F. A. Elliston (ed.), Ethics and the Legal Profession, Prometheus. pp. 204-215. 1986.[Posted here is article as originally published (same title) in ALSA Forum VI (1982) pp. 1-17 plus rebuttal by Thomas D. Barton, pp. 18-22]
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172Review of Thinking Like an Engineer: Studies in the Ethics of a Profession, by Michael Davis (review)Teaching Philosophy 23 (3): 306-309. 2000.
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167Review of J. Ellul, The Technological System (review)Nature and System 3 184-188. 1981.This review of Ellul's The Technological System plus a book of essays that attempt to interpret Ellul notes how negatively his earlier work was received by English-speaking readers and how poorly he wins them over in this book. He argues that there is "a technological system" that is embedded in society and cannot be controlled however much government may try. Government may be deemed the villain of this book and computers the heroes. The Third World, not yet subject to the system, will in tim…Read more
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164Displaced Workers: Whose Responsibility?Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 6 74-87. 1984.As a way of identifying factors that come into play in determining responsibility for displaced workers, author reviews a number of well known arguments for or against responsibility on the part of diverse actors in society. Key figures in this search for responsibility are corporations, unions, and government. No definitive responsibility is asserted.
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163Review of Mark H. McCormack, The Terrible Truth about Lawyers (review)Journal of Legal Education 38 (3): 481-483. 1988.
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161The Philosophical Challenge of September 11, edited by Tom Rockmore, Joseph Margolis, and Armen T. Marsoobian (review)Teaching Philosophy 29 (3): 269-271. 2006.The events of September 11, 2001, have challenged many disciplines and professions, but have they really engendered a philosophical challenge? The title of this book suggests they have, and if so one would expect its contribution to show how the violence perpetrated that day and in its aftermath has challenged philosophy. In fact, few of the otherwise interesting essays do this very clearly.
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160Review of Mark L. Greenberg and Lance Schacterle (eds.) Literature and Technology (review)Dialogue (Misc) 13 (5): 235-237. 1993.
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159The Philosopher's Voice: Philosophy, Politics, and Language in the Nineteenth Century, by Andrew Fiala (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (4): 333-335. 2004.A positive review of a book about four nineteenth century German philosophers (Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx) who sought to use philosophy to effect political change. To this end they each decided whom to address and how. Their objective: enhance freedom and/or enlightenment. Final topic: the relevance of these writers and their agenda to contemporary philosophy.
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157The Normative Side of TechnologyIn Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol. II, Jai Press. pp. 91-109. 1979.An adequate philosophy of technology will not stop with knowledge-claim considerations, like traditional philosophy of science, but will address public policy issues, as is done regarding science via science policy studies. Technology is not merely "applied science" but generates attention to normative issues engendered by technologies. Philosophers of technology can find support for such normative concerns in studies of the value impact of applying science, e.g., those of Radnitzky, Ravetz and…Read more
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155Review of Elizabeth H. Wolgast, The Grammar of Justice (review)Noûs 25 (1): 137-139. 1991.Book under review consists of a set of articles by Wolgast that contibute in various ways to her contention that human beings arrive at a theory of justice quasi-empirically insofar as a particular group encounters and seeks to surmount experiences of gross injustice. Via such experiences they develop a community-oriented sense of justice; but they do not thereby create a reliable basis for communitarian ethics.
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152Trade Barriers to the Public Good: Free Trade and Environmental Protection, by Alex Michalos (review)Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 15 (3): 235-237. 2011.
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139Technology and PrivacyIn Byrne Edmund (ed.), The Technology of Discovery and the Discovery of Technology, Society For Philosophy and Technology. pp. 379-390. 1991.Emergent technologies are undermining both decisional privacy (intimacy) and informational privacy. Regarding the former consider, e.g., technical intrusions on burglar alarms and telephone calls. Regarding the latter consider how routinely technologies enable intrusion into electronic data processing (EDP) in spite of government efforts to maintain control. These efforts are uneven among nations thus inviting selective choice of a data storage country. Deregulation of telecommunications and …Read more
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137Review of Becker and Gibberman, On Trial: Law, Lawyers, and the Legal System (review)Journal of Legal Education 39 (1): 155-156. 1989.
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137Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq, by William R. Nester (review)Michigan War Studies Review 2012 (048): 1-3. 2012.
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129Review of Robert Howard, Brave New Workplace (review)Labor Studies Journal 12 (1): 99-100. 1987.
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120Review of Gertrude Ezorsky (ed.) Moral Rights in the Workplace (review)Labor Studies Journal 13 (4): 80-82. 1988.
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114Review of William Picket (ed.) Technology at the Turning Point (review)Technology and Culture 19 795-796. 1978.
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63Probability and Opinion: A Study in the Medieval Presuppositions of Post-Medieval Theories of Probability (edited book)Martinus Nijhoff. 1968.Recognizing that probability (the Greek doxa) was understood in pre-modern theories as the polar opposite of certainty (episteme), the author of this study elaborates the forms which these polar opposites have taken in some twentieth century writers and then, in greater detail, in the writings of Thomas Aquinas. Profiting from subsequent more sophisticated theories of probability, he examines how Aquinas’s judgments about everything from God to gossip depend on schematizations of the polarity b…Read more
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41Situation et probabilité chez Saint Thomas d'AquinRevue Philosophique De Louvain 64 525-549. 1966.Il s'agit ici de la dimension existentielle de la theorie morale de S. Thomas d'Aquin. Pour lui, le domaine de l'incertain est generalement coextensif a celui de la contingence, de ce qui peut etre autre qu'il n'est. En general, S. Thomas envisage la contingence de la meme maniere qu'Aristote, mais dans une perspective totalement differente. Theologien, il s'interesse au monde physique surtout comme manifestation de la sagesse divine vers laquelle il desire monter. Il ne dedaigne pas pour au…Read more
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29Assessing Arms Makers’ Corporate Social ResponsibilityJournal of Business Ethics 74 (3): 401-17. 2008.Assessment of U.S. arms industry on basis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) requirements regarding the environment, social equity, profitability, and use of public power. Finding: that this industry fails to meet any of these four CSR requirement. They should, accordingly, be held responsible for the foreseeable consequences that flow from use of their products.
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Indiana University Purdue University, IndianapolisDepartment of Philosophy
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Social and Political Philosophy |
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