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7AFTERWORDS Criticism and CounterthesesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (2): 267-274. 1973.
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146Douglas P. Lackey -- the moral case for unilateral nuclear disarmamentPhilosophy and Social Criticism 10 (3-4): 157-171. 1984.
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20The 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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29Case Studies: Can a Healthy Subject Volunteer to Be Injured in Research?Hastings Center Report 16 (4): 31. 1986.
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5A 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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12The 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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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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56Giotto 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.”.