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95Nsa Management Directive #424: Secrecy and Privacy in the Aftermath of Edward SnowdenEthics 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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58The Role of the 'International Community' in Just War Tradition--Confronting the Challenges of Humanitarian Intervention and Preemptive WarJournal of Military Ethics 2 (2): 122-144. 2003.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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39African famine: New economic and ethical perspectivesJournal of Philosophy 87 (11): 629-641. 1990.
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34Postmodern WarJournal 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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31Ethics and Cyber Warfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital WarfareOxford University Press USA. 2016.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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29Ethics 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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29A re-interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of natureJournal of the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 103-113. 1984.
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29Randall C. Morris, "Process Philosophy and Political Ideology: The Social and Political Thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (3): 473. 1993.
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27Industrial challenges of military roboticsJournal 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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26Transforming Process Theism. SUNY Series in PhilosophyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (4): 329-331. 2001.
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24The Rehabilitation of Whitehead: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process PhilosophyState University of New York Press. 1989."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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24The Strategy of Graceful DeclineEthics 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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23Pirates and PMCsInternational 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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23The Reality of Time (review)Review of Metaphysics 44 (1): 144-145. 1990.Against critics who range from Husserl and Heidegger to Rorty and Foucault, Harris presents a renewed justification of the importance of systematic metaphysical inquiry along the lines advocated by R. G. Collingwood. Surveying the writings of Augustine, Kant, McTaggart, Husserl, Heidegger, and Adolf Grünbaum, Harris illustrates the importance of such "classical" metaphysical inquiry in coping with the familiar, but still unresolved, canon of conundrums associated with the problem of time.
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22The Moral Status of Combatants: A New Theory of Just WarJournal 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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20Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to KnowOxford 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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20'Methodological Anarchy': Arguing about War - and Getting It Right. Brian Orend, The Morality of WarJournal of Military Ethics 6 (3): 246-252. 2007.No abstract
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19Hegel 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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18The Rise of neo-Kantianism: German academic philosophy between idealism and positivismHistory of European Ideas 18 (5): 816-818. 1994.
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18International Symposium on Hegel and Whitehead: Fordham University, June 2–6, 1984Hegel Bulletin 5 (2): 7-10. 1984.
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18Response to Michael Gross: Military Ethics, Insurgency, and the Rise of ‘Soft War’Journal of Military Ethics 14 (3-4): 251-254. 2015.
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17Ethics 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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16Pirates and PMCsInternational 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