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6AFTERWORDS Criticism and CounterthesesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (2): 267-274. 1973.
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140Douglas P. Lackey -- the moral case for unilateral nuclear disarmamentPhilosophy and Social Criticism 10 (3-4): 157-171. 1984.
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19The 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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15Empirical disconfirmation and ethical counter-exampleJournal of Value Inquiry 10 (1): 30-34. 1976.
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4Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West, David Rieff , 240 pp., $20.00 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 10 207-212. 1996.
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90Missiles and morals: A utilitarian look at nuclear deterrencePhilosophy and Public Affairs 11 (3): 189-231. 1982.
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15Fame as a Value ConceptPhilosophy Research Archives 12 541-551. 1986.This essay distinguishes personal from generic fame and accurate from inaccurate fame, and claims that only accurate personal fame could possess intrinsic value. Nevertheless, three common arguments why accurate personal fame might possess intrinsic value are shown to be unsound. After rejecting two Aristotelian arguments to the effect that no sort of fame possesses value, the author suggests that fame is valueless if one assumes a modern axiology in which the good life consists of self-regulati…Read more
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32Ethical Reflections on Company-Owned Life InsuranceJournal of Business Ethics 80 (4): 845-854. 2008.COLI – company owned life insurance – is often purchased by firms on employees in whom the firm has no demonstrable insurable interest. Though no immediate harm comes to individuals insured in this way, purchasing such policies raises moral questions. From a Kantian framework, questions arise about reciprocity and fairness, the deception of employees, the generation of mistrust, and the use of the employee’s life as a means to profit. No compensating social good is served by the sale of these po…Read more