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    Comparative Just War Theory (edited book)
    Rowman & Littlefield. 2020.
    War is a recurring and ultimate arbiter involving organized armed conflicts ranging from larege world wars to smaller regional and civil wars. Many observers believe that war and its tragic consequences are inevitable. Because Western Just War Theory derives and draws primarily from only one religious and philosophical tradition (roman Catholicism,) it fails to serve as a universal account of the acceptability of war or, much less, sustain a global dialogue about all the moral issues pertaining …Read more
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    The bad habit of bearing children
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 7 (1): 35. 2014.
    The decision to procreate—to have, raise, and nurture biological children—is almost never subject to moral scrutiny. In fact, most societies implicitly embrace and advance procreation, a view known as pronatalism: procreation is morally desirable, psychologically “normal,” and generally seen as a laudable life choice. Those who cannot procreate are understood to have suffered a severe loss, and having or desiring to have children is considered an important developmental marker of increasing matu…Read more
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    University of Miami
    Michigan Family Review 17 (1): 65-73. 2013.
    This essay investigates the demands on adult children to provide care for their elderly/ill parents from a socio-moral perspective. In order to narrow the examination, the question pursued here is agent-relative: What social and moral complexities are involved for the adult child when their parent(s) need care? First, this article examines our society’s expectation that adult children are morally obligated to provide care for their parents. Second, the essay articulates how transgressing against…Read more
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    The Subject of Virtue by James Laidlaw. (review)
    Modernism/Modernity 22. 2014.
    Laidlaw’s aims to show how a Moral Philosophy that is enriched by Anthropology can work, and how an Anthropology that is enriched by Moral Philosophy is a viable and important aim. Thus Laidlaw’s work belongs in the discipline of Moral Anthropology, an emerging field that can benefit from the frameworks available in both disciplines, so that an anthropology of ethics emerges.