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316What are the modern classics? The Baruch poll of great philosophy in the twentieth centuryPhilosophical Forum 30 (4). 1999.
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4Admiral Turner's Plan Caging the Nuclear Genie: An American Challenge for Global Security, Stansfield Turner , 162 pp., $22.00 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 12 226-227. 1998.
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11The American Debate on Nuclear Weapons PolicyAnalyse & Kritik 9 (1-2): 7-46. 1987.Criticism of nuclear weapons policies often misses the target through ignorance of the policies that are actually in effect. This essay recounts the development of American nuclear weapons policies, together with a history of the criticisms of these policies presented by nuclear strategists and moral philosophers.
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53Giotto in Padua: A New Geography of the Human SoulThe Journal of Ethics 9 (3-4): 551-572. 2005.In the Arena Chapel in Padua, Giotto painted seven allegorical representations of virtues and seven allegorical representations of vices. This article probes the sources for the list of virtues and the list of vices. The ensemble of virtues can be located in St. Thomas Aquinas; the ensemble of the vices, however, is original. The result is a new account of vices that displaces the odler account of the “seven deadly sins.”.
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15Divine 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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12The Morality of Defensive War edited by Cécile Fabre & Seth Lazar 2014 Oxford, Oxford University Press272 pp., £35.00 (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 32 (1): 111-113. 2015.
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26Extraordinary Evil or Common Malevolence? Evaluating the Jewish HolocaustJournal of Applied Philosophy 3 (2): 167-181. 1986.This essay considers and rejects the hypothesis of Fackenheim, Wiesel and others that the Jewish Holocaust contains some qualitatively or quantitatively distinct moral evil. The Holocaust was not qualitatively distinct because the intentions and vices of the mass murderer are qualitatively indistinguishable from the intentions and vices of the common murderer. The Holocaust was not quantitatively distinct either because the sum of the evils of the Holocaust is quantitatively indistinguishable fr…Read more
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49Peter Hylton, "Russell, Idealism, and the Rise of Analytic Philosophy" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1): 149. 1992.
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68Killing in war – by Jeff McMahanJournal of Applied Philosophy 27 (2): 212-215. 2010.No Abstract