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1Can Specific Rules be Deduced from Moral Principles?In Michel Weber Pierfrancesco Basile (ed.), Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality, Ontos Verlag. pp. 221-240. 2006.
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6The Ethics of Armed Conflict: A Cosmopolitan Just War TheoryEdinburgh University Press. 2014.Just war theory exists to stop armies and countries from using armed force without good cause. But how can we judge whether a war is just? In this original book, John W. Lango takes some distinctive approaches to the ethics of armed conflict. DT A revisionist approach that involves generalising traditional just war principles, so that they are applicable by all sorts of responsible agents to all forms of armed conflict DT A cosmopolitan approach that features the Security Council DT A preventive…Read more
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23In studying the history of the ethics of war, the just war tradition may be interpreted as a historically evolving body of tenets about just war principles. Instead of a single just war theory, there have been many just war theories—for example, those of Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria, and Grotius—theories that have various commonalities and differences. A comprehensive history of the evolving just war tradition should feature a thorough study of how these just war theories were rethought. For exam…Read more
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7Is Kant’s Ethics Overly Demanding?The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 44 127-132. 1998.Is Kant’s "Formula of the End in Itself" overly demanding? In addressing this question, I sketch a conception of co-obligation, that is, a sort of moral requirement that holds, not of persons distributively, but of persons collectively. I then raise a problem of devolution: How does a co-obligation for all persons devolve upon me? For instance, given that we must maximize happiness, it does not seem to follow that I must always act so as to maximize happiness. In partial answer to this problem, …Read more
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525Preventive Wars, Just War Principles, and the United NationsThe Journal of Ethics 9 (1-2): 247-268. 2005.This paper explores the question of whether the United Nations should engage in preventive military actions. Correlatively, it asks whether UN preventive military actions could satisfy just war principles. Rather than from the standpoint of the individual nation state, the ethics of preventive war is discussed from the standpoint of the UN. For the sake of brevity, only the legitimate authority, just cause, last resort, and proportionality principles are considered. Since there has been disagree…Read more
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28Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition and the Right to War in the Twenty-First Century, Cian O'Driscoll , 244 pp., $85 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 24 (2): 219-220. 2010.
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16Relation instances and musical soundsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 78 (2). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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63Is There a Just Cause for Current U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan?International Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (1): 9-21. 2010.The current armed conflict in Afghanistan (briefly, the Afghan conflict) is viewed through the lens of a just war theory. In particular, the question stated by the title is explored by means of a generalized just cause principle. For brevity, empirical, practical, and legal issues about the Afghan conflict are mostly set aside. Hence a definite answer to the question is not proposed. Instead, the main aim is to clarify the question. Specifically, the question is amplified, by distinguishing puta…Read more
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89Nonlethal Weapons, Noncombatant Immunity, and Combatant Nonimmunity: A Study of Just War Theory (review)Philosophia 38 (3): 475-497. 2010.Frequently, the just war principle of noncombatant immunity is interpreted as morally prohibiting the intentional targeting of noncombatants. Apparently, many just war theorists assume that to target means to (intend to) kill. Now that effective nonlethal weapons have been envisaged, it should be evident that there is no conceptual connection between intentionally targeting and intentionally killing. For, using nonlethal weapons, there could be intentional targeting without intentional killing. …Read more
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George R. Lucas, Jr., "The Rehabilitation of Whitehead: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 26 (4): 540. 1990.
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Whitehead's metaphysical systemIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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36Basic Societies and Physical Purposes A Study of Whitehead’s Notion of SocietiesChromatikon 6 161-179. 2010.
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7The Relatedness of Eternal Objects in Whitehead’s Process and RealityProcess Studies 1 (2): 124-128. 1971.
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11Rethinking the Just War Tradition (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2007.The just war tradition is an evolving body of tenets for determining when resorting to war is just and how war may be justly executed. Rethinking the Just War Tradition provides a timely exploration in light of new security threats that have emerged since the end of the Cold War, including ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, threats of terror attacks, and genocidal conflicts within states. The contributors are philosophers, political scientists, a U.S. Army officer, and a senior analyst at the…Read more
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Searching for New Contrasts: Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophsiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind, eds. Franz G. Riffert and Michel Weber (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (4): 826-831. 2004.
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Lewis S. Ford, "The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics, 1925-1929" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21 (4): 563. 1985.
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27Fitch's Method and Whitehead's MetaphysicsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38 (4). 2002.
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7Whitehead’s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy (review)Process Studies 38 (1): 153-157. 2009.
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36Is armed humanitarian intervention to stop mass killing morally obligatoryPublic Affairs Quarterly 15 (3): 173-191. 2001.
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Wolfe Mays, "Whitehead's Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics: An Introduction to His Thought" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 15 (3): 263. 1979.