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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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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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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.”.
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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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52Peter Hylton, "Russell, Idealism, and the Rise of Analytic Philosophy" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1): 149. 1992.
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71Killing in war – by Jeff McMahanJournal of Applied Philosophy 27 (2): 212-215. 2010.No Abstract
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21Fame 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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14Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNYIn Peter Singer (ed.), Ethics, Oxford University Press. 1994.
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18The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1 (review)Metaphilosophy 15 (3-4): 282-288. 1984.
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43Reflections on Cavell's ontology of filmJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (2): 271-273. 1973.
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9Moral Philosophy and Nuclear Deterrence [review of Anthony Kenny, The Logic of Deterrence ]Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 6 (1): 85. 1986.
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20Disarmament revisited: A reply to Kavka and HardinPhilosophy and Public Affairs 12 (3): 261-265. 1983.
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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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91Missiles 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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33Ethical 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
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34Cultural Pluralism Essays On Toleration, Michael Walzer , 128 pp., $16.50 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 12 220-221. 1998.
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The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical StudyPhilosophical Forum 42 (3): 269-271. 2011.