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    Nsa Management Directive #424: Secrecy and Privacy in the Aftermath of Edward Snowden
    Ethics and International Affairs 28 (1): 29-38. 2014.
    Whatever else one might say concerning the legality, morality, and prudence of his actions, Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, is right about the notion of publicity and informed consent, which together constitute the hallmark of democratic public policy. In order to be morally justifiable, any strategy or policy involving the body politic must be one to which it would voluntarily assent when fully informed about it. This, in essence, was Snowden's argument for …Read more
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    Although the use of military force for humanitarian ends seems utterly divorced from the use of such force to combat terrorism, both uses answer to similar descriptions. Both appear to encourage nations that are not necessarily themselves under attack to set aside the reigning conventions of national sovereignty and territorial integrity for the overriding purposes of international law enforcement and protection of vulnerable noncombatants. Both involve offensive rather than purely defensive use…Read more
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    Advice and Dissent: 'The Uniform Perspective'
    Journal of Military Ethics 8 (2): 141-161. 2009.
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    George L. Kline. On Hegel
    The Owl of Minerva 48 (1/2): 167-169. 2016.
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    Myers Discussion
    with Adam Blatner, Marcus Clayton, Ed Towne, Chuck Krecz, and Charles Goodman
    The Personalist Forum 14 (2): 191-198. 1998.
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    Postmodern War
    Journal of Military Ethics 9 (4): 289-298. 2010.
    This article, an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Military Ethics devoted to emerging military technologies, elaborates the present status of certain predictions about the future of warfare and combat made by postmodern essayist, Umberto Eco, during the First Gulf War in 1991. The development of military robotics, innovations in nanotechnology, prospects for the biological, psychological, and neurological ?enhancement? of combatants themselves, combined with the increasing use o…Read more
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    Outside the Camp: Recent Work on Whitehead's Philosophy, Part Two
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21 (3). 1985.
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    A re-interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of nature
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 103-113. 1984.
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    Auxier Discussion
    with Adam Blatner, Randall Auxier, Tim Eastman, and William Reese
    The Personalist Forum 14 (2): 133-140. 1998.
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    Ethics and Cyber Conflict: A Response to JME 12:1 (2013)
    Journal of Military Ethics 13 (1): 20-31. 2014.
    (2014). Ethics and Cyber Conflict: A Response to JME 12:1 (2013) Journal of Military Ethics: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 20-31. doi: 10.1080/15027570.2014.908012
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    From North Korea's recent attacks on Sony to perpetual news reports of successful hackings and criminal theft, cyber conflict has emerged as a major topic of public concern. Yet even as attacks on military, civilian, and commercial targets have escalated, there is not yet a clear set of ethical guidelines that apply to cyber warfare. Indeed, like terrorism, cyber warfare is commonly believed to be a war without rules. Given the prevalence cyber warfare, developing a practical moral code for this…Read more
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    The Strategy of Graceful Decline
    Ethics and International Affairs 25 (2): 133-142. 2011.
    While Professor Miller claims that just war theory cannot "provide sufficient guidance" on the question of Afghanistan, his concerns actually fall squarely within its purview, and do not suggest its inability to critique proposals to prolong the American and NATO presence in Afghanistan.
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    The Moral Status of Combatants: A New Theory of Just War
    Journal of Military Ethics 20 (3-4): 296-298. 2022.
    This book-cover's announcement of a “new theory” of just war is likely just publisher's editorial hyperbole. The author, however, does not in the end require such outside assistance. From the outse...
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    "Lucas' book competently brings Whitehead's philosophy into dialogue with "analytic" philosophy. This is a topic of great originality and considerable potential importance for the field of philosophy.
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    The Morality of 'Military Anthropology'
    Journal of Military Ethics 7 (3): 165-185. 2008.
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    Pirates and PMCs
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (1): 87-94. 2009.
    Originally presented at a forum sponsored by Concerned Philosophers for Peace at the Eastern Division annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Philadelphia, PA: 29 December 2008), this essay discusses two ethical challenges in foreign policy likely to be confronted by the new U.S. presidential administration. The increased reliance on private military contractors, including security contractors, poses a number of difficulties, the most troubling of which is the erosion of civil-…Read more
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    Transforming Process Theism. SUNY Series in Philosophy
    with Lewis S. Ford
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (4): 329-331. 2001.
  •  19
    Nerds Gone Wild (review)
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (1): 71-80. 2010.
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    Industrial challenges of military robotics
    Journal of Military Ethics 10 (4): 274-295. 2011.
    Abstract This article evaluates the ?drive toward greater autonomy? in lethally-armed unmanned systems. Following a summary of the main criticisms and challenges to lethal autonomy, both engineering and ethical, raised by opponents of this effort, the article turns toward solutions or responses that defense industries and military end users might seek to incorporate in design, testing and manufacturing to address these concerns. The way forward encompasses a two-fold testing procedure for reliab…Read more
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    Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know
    Oxford University Press USA. 2016.
    What significance does "ethics" have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral principles collectively guide the members of this "military profession?" This book explains these essential moral foundations, along with "just war theory," international relations, and international law. The ethical foundations that define the "Profession of Arms" have developed over millennia from the shared moral values, unique role responsibilities…Read more
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    Bilder einer Ausstellung (review)
    with Patricia Cook
    The Owl of Minerva 20 (1): 81-96. 1988.
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    Ethics and the ‘Human Terrain’
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (1): 23-30. 2010.
    Against the backdrop of the current “ethics controversy” within the American Anthropological Association over the U.S. Army’s “Human Terrain Systems” project, this article evaluates the moral obligations of scholars and academics asked by their governments to contribute their unique expertise toward the waging or ending of wars of which those scholars morally disapprove. Citing the examples of moral dilemmas occasioned by conflicts between duties of scholarship and duties of citizenship from pas…Read more
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    On Whitehead (review)
    Process Studies 33 (2): 357-360. 2004.
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    Hegel and Whitehead: Contemporary Perspectives on Systematic Philosophy (edited book)
    State University of New York Press. 1986.
    This volume begins with important critical, comparative, and historical assessments of the contemporary problems in metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, social thought, and philosophy of religion, of history, and ...
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    H. Burnell Pannill 1921 - 1980
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 54 (2). 1980.