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6AFTERWORDS Criticism and CounterthesesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (2): 267-274. 1973.
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139Douglas P. Lackey -- the moral case for unilateral nuclear disarmamentPhilosophy and Social Criticism 10 (3-4): 157-171. 1984.
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18The Auteur Theory in the Age of the Mini-SeriesIn Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 543-549. 2019.Dominant in mid-century, the auteur theory of cinema elevated the director of a film to a position of artistic eminence. The theory was eroded by theoretical attacks and by the rise of big-budget computer-driven action films. This chapter explores the further decline in the auteur theory wrought by the contemporary rise of the television mini-series. Various twenty-first-century mini-series have been critically acclaimed, but in most cases, these mini-series have multiple directors. There remain…Read more
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26Case Studies: Can a Healthy Subject Volunteer to Be Injured in Research?Hastings Center Report 16 (4): 31. 1986.
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2A Puzzle for Scholars [why must immortal souls pervade all space?]Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 18. 1998.
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15A Puzzle for Scholars [why must immortal souls pervade all space?]Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 18. 2014.
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6Review of Steven P. Lee: Morality, Prudence, and Nuclear Weapons (review)Ethics 105 (1): 196-198. 1994.
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The evolution of the modern terrorist state: area bombing and nuclear deterrenceIn Igor Primoratz (ed.), Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues, Palgrave-macmillan. 2004.
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33Atheism, philosophy, pornography, and sodomy: The first libertinesPhilosophical Forum 42 (4): 347-350. 2011.
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1Post war environmental damage : a study in jus post bellumIn Larry May & Zachary Hoskins (eds.), International Criminal Law and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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10Review of Larry may, Aggression and Crimes Against Peace (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (8). 2008.
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13Empirical disconfirmation and ethical counter-exampleJournal of Value Inquiry 10 (1): 30-34. 1976.
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55The Ethics of Life Insurance Settlements: Investing in the Lives of Unrelated Individuals (review)Journal of Business Ethics 96 (4). 2010.Life insurance settlements, or life settlements, are life insurance policies owned by investor-beneficiaries on the lives of unrelated individuals. With life settlements, investors make substantial payments to the insured individuals upon purchasing such policies, pay any remaining premius, and collect the death benefits upon the demise of the insured individuals. Transactions involving life settlements seem poised to become a major source of profits for investment banks, comparable in dollar am…Read more
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90Divine Omniscience and Human PrivacyPhilosophy Research Archives 10 383-391. 1984.This paper argues that there is a conflict between divine omniscience and the human right to privacy. The right to privacy derives from the right to moral autonomy, which human persons possess even against a divine being. It follows that if God exists and persists in knowing all things, his knowledge is a non-justifiable violation of a human right. On the other hand, if God exists and restricts his knowing in deference to human privacy, it follows that he cannot fulfill the traditional function …Read more
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49The Moral Irrelevance of the Counterforce/Countervalue DistinctionThe Monist 70 (3): 255-275. 1987.Since the atomic era began in 1945, there have been three waves of moral criticism directed at American nuclear weapons policies. The first wave, which began around 1957 and ended in 1962 with McNamara’s announcement of Flexible Response, focused on Dulles’s policy of Massive Retaliation. The second wave, which began in the early 70’s and ended in 1974 with Schlesinger’s announcement of Countervailing Response, focused on the Assured Destruction policy developed in McNamara’s later reports to Co…Read more
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28Review: Trenton Merricks, Propositions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 321 + xiii pages; $42.68/hardcover (review)Philosophical Forum 47 (1): 107-109. 2016.
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31Book Review:Morality, Prudence, and Nuclear Weapons. Steven Lee (review)Ethics 105 (1): 196-. 1994.