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Deliberative democracy and agency : linking transitional justice and developmentIn Lori Keleher & Stacy Kosko (eds.), Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2019.
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16Accountability for Violations of the Laws of Armed Conflict: Domestic First, International SecondMind 132 (528): 952-958. 2023.My critical commentary focuses on Victor Tadros’ analysis of accountability for violations of the (revised) laws of armed conflict (LOAC) that he lays out (Tadr.
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25Role of ions in the colloidal synthesis of gold nanowiresPhilosophical Magazine 87 (14-15): 2143-2158. 2007.
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12Sovereignty, territory, and the legitimacy of the international orderEuropean Journal of Political Theory 21 (3): 608-614. 2022.In The Shifting Border, Ayelet Shachar argues that the exercise of sovereign power through border regimes no longer tracks territorial boundaries. In my commentary, I first argue that Shachar’s analysis implicitly calls into question the legitimacy of the international order. I then raise the worry that the logic which severs the link between the exercise of sovereignty and territory is the same logic that can be used to justify injustice and atrocity such as ethnic cleansing. Shachar’s normativ…Read more
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75Classification and Moral Evaluation of Uncertainties in Engineering ModelingScience and Engineering Ethics 17 (3): 553-570. 2011.Engineers must deal with risks and uncertainties as a part of their professional work and, in particular, uncertainties are inherent to engineering models. Models play a central role in engineering. Models often represent an abstract and idealized version of the mathematical properties of a target. Using models, engineers can investigate and acquire understanding of how an object or phenomenon will perform under specified conditions. This paper defines the different stages of the modeling proces…Read more
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68Evaluating the Source of the Risks Associated with Natural EventsRes Publica 17 (2): 125-140. 2011.Within philosophy there has been little discussion of the risks associated with natural events such as earthquakes. The first objective of this paper is to demonstrate why such risks should be the subject of more sustained philosophical interest. We argue that we cannot simply apply to risks associated with natural events those insights and frameworks for moral evaluation developed in the literature considering ordinary risks, technological risks and the risks posed by anthropogenic climate chan…Read more
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30Technology and Transitional JusticeSocial Philosophy and Policy 38 (2): 170-190. 2021.Transitional justice refers to the process of dealing with widespread wrongdoing characteristically committed during the course of conflict and/or repression. Examples of such processes include criminal trials, truth commissions, reparations, and memorials. Technology is altering the forms that widespread wrongdoing takes. Technology is also altering the form of processes of transitional justice themselves. This essay provides a map of these changes and their normative implications.
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20Sovereignty, territory, and the legitimacy of the international orderSage Publications: European Journal of Political Theory 21 (3): 608-614. 2021.European Journal of Political Theory, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 608-614, July 2022. In The Shifting Border, Ayelet Shachar argues that the exercise of sovereign power through border regimes no longer tracks territorial boundaries. In my commentary, I first argue that Shachar’s analysis implicitly calls into question the legitimacy of the international order. I then raise the worry that the logic which severs the link between the exercise of sovereignty and territory is the same logic that can be …Read more
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17Political Philosophy and its Limits: A Response to de ShalitAustralasian Philosophical Review 4 (1): 32-44. 2020.ABSTRACT Avner de Shalit’s central claim in “Political Philosophy and What People Think” is that political philosophers should take seriously the views of the public, but in practice philosophers do not do this. Moreover, philosophers lack adequate justifications for this lack of consideration. In my commentary, I first discuss de Shalit’s rebuttal of arguments that claim political philosophy searches for the truth and the truth is not empirical, which overlooks, in my view, a central debate amo…Read more
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19Transitional Justice and Our Moral FateJus Cogens 3 (1): 73-84. 2021.In Our Moral Fate, Allen Buchanan defends an account of moral change that is grounded in evolutionary biology. His account offers resources for explaining the possibility of both moral progress and moral regression, where progress and regression are a function of moral inclusion and moral exclusion, respectively. In my commentary, I first offer a brief summary of Buchanan’s argument. I then examine Buchanan’s account from the perspective of transitional justice. Transitional justice provides con…Read more
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19John Oberdiek, Imposing Risk: A Normative FrameworkJournal of Moral Philosophy 18 (1): 103-107. 2021.
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38III—On Principled Compromise: When Does a Process of Transitional Justice Qualify as Just?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 120 (1): 47-70. 2020.Processes of transitional justice deal with large-scale wrongdoing committed during extended periods of conflict or repression. This paper discusses three common moral objections to processes of transitional justice, which I label shaking hands with the devil, selling victims short, and entrenching the status quo. Given the scale of wrongdoing and the context in which transitional justice processes are adopted, compromise is necessary. To respond to these objections, I argue, it is necessary to …Read more
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13Introduction to the Symposium on Sabine Roeser’s Risk, Technology, and Moral EmotionsScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (4): 1887-1890. 2020.
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21Understanding Engineers’ Responsibilities: A Prerequisite to Designing Engineering Education: Commentary on “Educating Engineers for the Public Good Through International Internships: Evidence from a Case Study at Universitat Politècnica de València”Science and Engineering Ethics 25 (6): 1817-1820. 2019.The development of the curriculum for engineering education (course requirements as well as extra-curricular activities like study abroad and internships) should be based on a comprehensive understanding of engineers’ responsibilities. The responsibilities that are constitutive of being an engineer include striving to fulfill the standards of excellence set by technical codes; to improve the idealized models that engineers use to predict, for example, the behavior of alternative designs; and to …Read more
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22Transitional Justice, the United States, Equality, and Trade-offsSocial Philosophy Today 35 187-192. 2019.
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145A Moral Theory of Political ReconciliationCambridge University Press. 2010.Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of peacemaking globally. In this book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing political relationships under the strain of civil conflict and repression. Focusing on the unique moral damage that attends the deterioration of political relationships, Murphy identifies the preci…Read more
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33On theorizing transitional justice: responses to Walker, Hull, Metz and HellstenJournal of Global Ethics 14 (2): 181-193. 2018.ABSTRACTTransitional justice encompasses a global body of scholarship and practice that concentrates on responses to large-scale wrongdoing in the context of an attempted shift from conflict and/or repression. In my book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice I argue that transitional justice is a distinctive type of justice. Transitional justice requires the just pursuit of societal transformation. I define transformation relationally, as the terms defining interaction among citize…Read more
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44Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World (edited book)Springer International Publishing. 2015.This volume identifies, discusses and addresses the wide array of ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of the particular challenges globalization poses for engineering ethics standards and education. This volume concentrates on precisely this challenge. Scholars and practitioners from diverse national and professional backgrounds discuss the ethical issues emerging from the inherent symbiotic relations…Read more
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11Recovery From Natural and Man-Made Disasters As Capabilities Restoration and EnhancementInternational Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 3 (4): 1-17. 2008.In the literature on the recovery of societies from natural disasters, a dominant theme is the importance of pursuing and achieving sustainable recovery. Sustainability implies that recovery efforts should aim to (re-) build, maintain, and, if possible, enhance the quality of life of members of the disaster-stricken community in the short and long term. In this paper, we propose a capabilities-based approach to recovery and argue that it provides important theoretical resources for better realiz…Read more
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33International Criminal Trials and the Circumstances of JusticeCriminal Law and Philosophy 12 (4): 575-585. 2018.Transitional justice is broadly understood to refer to formal efforts to deal with past wrongs in the midst of a transition from an extended period of conflict or repression to democracy. In this paper, I consider the role of international criminal trials in transitional justice. I argue that such trials may contribute to transitional justice, but such contributions are conditional on two main factors. The first factor is time. The second factor is what other transitional justice responses are a…Read more
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29Understanding Engineers’ Responsibilities: A Prerequisite to Designing Engineering EducationScience and Engineering Ethics 1-4. 2017.The development of the curriculum for engineering education should be based on a comprehensive understanding of engineers’ responsibilities. The responsibilities that are constitutive of being an engineer include striving to fulfill the standards of excellence set by technical codes; to improve the idealized models that engineers use to predict, for example, the behavior of alternative designs; and to achieve the internal goods such as safety and sustainability as they are reflected in the desig…Read more
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109ReconciliationStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2015.Particular conceptions of reconciliation vary across a number of dimensions. As section 1 explains, the kind of relationship at issue in a specific context affects the type of improvement in relations that might be necessary in order to qualify as reconciliation. Reconciliation is widely taken to be a scalar concept. Section 2 discusses the spectrum of intensity along which kinds of improvement in relationships fall, and indicates why, in particular contexts, theorists often disagree about the p…Read more
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22The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional JusticeCambridge University Press. 2017.Many countries have attempted to transition to democracy following conflict or repression, but the basic meaning of transitional justice remains hotly contested. In this book, Colleen Murphy analyses transitional justice - showing how it is distinguished from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice - and outlines the ethical standards which societies attempting to democratize should follow. She argues that transitional justice involves the just pursuit of societal transformation. Such …Read more
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42Jus Post Bellum and Political ReconciliationIn Larry May & Elizabeth Edenberg (eds.), Jus Post Bellum and Transitional Justice, Cambridge University Press. 2013.The category of jus post bellum is a welcome addition to discussions of the justice of war. But, despite its handy Latin label, we will argue that it cannot be properly understood merely as a set of corollaries from jus ad bellum and jus in bello. Instead, an acceptable theory of justice in the postwar period will have to draw on a broader set of normative ideas than those that have been the focus of the just war tradition. In this paper, we will argue that norms of political reconciliation prov…Read more
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22Political Reconciliation, Jus Post Bellum and Asymmetric ConflictTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 62 (145). 2015.
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17Book Review: Global Justice and Due Process, written by Larry May (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (2): 237-240. 2014.
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19Selling the Future: The Perils of Predicting Global Politics, Ariel Colonomos, trans. Gregory Elliott , 224 pp., $37.50 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 32 (1): 122-124. 2018.
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Introduction to "Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World"In C. Murphy, P. Gardoni, H. Bashir, C. E. Harris Jr & E. Masad (eds.), Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World, Springer International Publishing. 2015.
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25Gauging the societal impacts of natural disasters using a capability approachDisasters 34 (3): 619-636. 2010.There is a widely acknowledged need for a single composite index that provides a comprehensive picture of the societal impact of disasters. A composite index combines and logically organizes important information policy-makers need to allocate resources for the recovery from natural disasters; it can also inform hazard mitigation strategies. This paper develops a Disaster Impact Index (DII) to gauge the societal impact of disasters on the basis of the changes in individuals’ capabilities. The DI…Read more