• Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition (review)
    Journal of Military Ethics 22 (3): 289-291. 2024.
    “Limited Force” in Braun’s title refers to the recent tendency to apply force selectively as an alternative to waging full-scale warfare when attempting to dissuade adversaries or resolve conflicts...
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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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    Anthropologists in Arms traces the troubled history of social scientists' collaboration with national military, security, and intelligence organizations and analyzes the moral and ethical debates provoked by the rise of "military anthropology"—particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
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    The genesis of modern process thought: a historical outline with bibliography
    Scarecrow Press and the American Theological Library Association. 1983.
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    Ethics: questions & morality of human actions (edited book)
    with John K. Roth
    Grey House Publishing. 2019.
    The third edition covers topics of recent interest in the twenty-first century, such as Heroic Medicine, Gender Identity, Wealth Inequality, LGBTQ Issues, and more. This encyclopedic work includes more than 1,000 essays organized by broad categories related to ethical issues.
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    16. Uncovering a ‘New’ Whitehead
    In Brian G. Henning & Joseph Petek (eds.), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 323-336. 2019.
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    George L. Kline. On Hegel
    The Owl of Minerva 48 (1/2): 167-169. 2016.
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    This book examines the importance of 'military ethics' in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy. Clausewitz's original analysis of war relegated ethics to the side-lines in favour of political realism, interpreting the proper use of military power solely to further the political goals of the state, whatever those may be. This book demonstrates how such single-minded focus no longer suffices to secure the interest of states, for whom the nature of warfare has evolved to fa…Read more
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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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    A re-interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of nature
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 103-113. 1984.
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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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    Transforming Process Theism. SUNY Series in Philosophy
    with Lewis S. Ford
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (4): 329-331. 2001.
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    Introduction
    Process Studies 48 (2): 153-158. 2019.
    In this short article, the conditions surrounding the recent discovery of Whitehead's first lecture at Harvard University are detailed. This article is meant as an introduction to Whitehead's lecture, which is published for the first time in the present issue of Process Studies. The previous two installments of the series titled "On the Trail ofWhitehead" can be found in Process Studies issues 45.1 and 46.1.
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    On the Trail of Whitehead
    Process Studies 46 (1): 52-62. 2017.
    This is the second installment in a series that reports on the progress of some of the more interesting discoveries emerging from ongoing work on the new and comprehensive critical edition of Whitehead being published by Edinburgh University Press. This installment deals, as the subtitle indicates, with the emergence of Whitehead’s metaphysics from 1925 until 1929. The first installment appeared in Process Studies 45.1.
  • Uncovering a 'new' Whitehead
    In Brian G. Henning & Joseph Petek (eds.), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925, Edinburgh University Press. 2019.
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    The Morality of 'Military Anthropology'
    Journal of Military Ethics 7 (3): 165-185. 2008.
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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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    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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    Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics (edited book)
    Routledge. 2015.
    The Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics is a comprehensive reference work that addresses concerns held in common by the military services of many nations. It attempts to discern both moral dilemmas and clusters of moral principles held in common by all practitioners of this profession, regardless of nation or culture. Comprising essays by contributors drawn from the four service branches as well as civilian academics specializing in this field, this handbook discusses the relationship of ethic…Read more
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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