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    Military Ethics: Guidelines for Peace and War
    with Nicholas Fotion
    Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1986.
    Forfatterne søger at opstille et etisk system for anvendelse af militære magtmidler, såvel i fred som under krig, byggende på normer, som efter erfaringen ...
  •  63
    Scientists and Free Will
    Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 42 63-68. 2008.
    Many scientists believe that the universe, including the human brain, is governed by natural laws and that all can be explained by natural processes. In consequence, they believe that all events, including brain events, are determined. From this, they often conclude that free will cannot exist. I believe these views are mistaken and will present several lines of argument to support this position. I conclude that the operation of free will is compatible with determinism, can be explained by natur…Read more
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    Moral constraints on war
    Philosophia 32 (1-4): 419-421. 2005.
  •  26
    On dilemmas of intervention
    Ethics 93 (4): 709-725. 1982.
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    The Theft: An Analysis of Moral Agency
    Conatus 5 (1): 27. 2020.
    Adam and Eve’s theft marks the beginning of the human career as moral agents. This article will examine the assumptions underlying the notion of moral agency from the perspective of three unremarkable human beings who found themselves in situations of moral difficulty. The article will conclude that these three people could not have acted differently than they did. It will conclude that it is unreasonable to assume that ordinary human beings will inevitably possess the resources to address diffi…Read more
  •  8
    The Strange Logic of Arguments About Cloning
    Philosophical Inquiry 24 (1-2): 57-69. 2002.
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    New challenges for political philosophy
    St. Martin's Press. 1997.
    The globalization of economic activity and human life is the most potent force of the present era. This book examines the impact of this force on human political institutions and ideas. It develops the argument that globalization will erode the nation-state's importance and transform the array of political ideas which accompany it.
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    Malthus' Dismal Theorem
    The Montreal Review. 2018.
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    Toleration
    with Nicholas G. Fotion
    University of Alabama Press. 1992.
    Most regard toleration as an unattractive fallback position of compromise and so tend to overlook it in favor of such active concepts as freedom, equality, and justice. Fotion and Elfstrom argue that toleration offers us the useful possibility of responding to a difficult situation with a degree of flexibility not possible with the dichotomous concepts of good-bad, right-wrong, ethical-unethical, Right-Left. Tolerating saturates ordinary human life and infuses public discussions of religion, mor…Read more
  •  4
    Military Ethics: Guidelines for Peace and War
    with Nicholas Fotion
    Philosophy 62 (241): 401-403. 1986.
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    Nonhuman Persons
    Philosophy Now 144 22-24. 2021.
    For much of Western history, we have been confident that human beings are persons but no other creatures have that status. These beliefs matter because personhood has often been deemed a necessary requirement for possessing moral value. Recently, an American legal activist group, the Nonhuman Rights Project, has challenged the assumption that only human beings are persons. Their approach is simple. They assume that humans possess particular features that make them persons, then ask whether there…Read more
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    Risk-Taking and Artificial Conception
    Hastings Center Report 9 (2): 4. 1979.
  •  1
    Military Penal Law
    In Christopher B. Gray (ed.), The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia. pp. 554-5. 1999.
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    Science and Democracy
    Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 84 (January 2013): 43-48. 2013.
  • Military Ethics
    In Encyclopedia of Ethics. pp. 1093-7. 2001.
  • Review of Cosmopolis: Prospects for World Government (review)
    American Political Science Review 93 247. 1999.
  • Deadly Science
    Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 76 187-95. 2005.
  • Examines the basic concepts and methodologies of assisting people in other countries, and their application in such areas as indigenous people, population control, national sovereignty, women's status, and free-trade agreements.
  • Toleration and Reason-Giving
    Journal of Humanities (Korean) 24 (June 1984): 167-80. 1984.
  • The Moral Responsibility of Scientists
    Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 82 181-8. 2011.