• The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality and Nature in a Processive Cosmos (review)
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42 (3): 450-454. 2006.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality and Nature in a Processive CosmosJohn W. LangoBrian G. Henning The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality and Nature in a Processive Cosmos University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 250 + xii pp.The aim of this interesting but flawed book by Brian Henning may be related through some remarks about the terms in its title.1 The term "creativity" stems from the most basic category in Whi…Read more
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    Can 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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    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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    In 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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    Is 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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    Preventive Wars, Just War Principles, and the United Nations
    The 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
  • 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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    Fitch's Method and Whitehead's Metaphysics
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38 (4). 2002.
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    Alfred North Whitehead, 1861–1947
    In Armen Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Subjectivity Space‐Time Valuation.
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    Why can sounds be structured as music?
    Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 49-62. 2012.
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    Overlapping Networks of Tropes
    Modern Schoolman 79 (2-3): 217-234. 2002.
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    Whitehead's ontology
    State University of New York Press. 1972.
    Introduction I. The Aim: Defining Whitehead's Categories of Existence Ontology is the study of being or beings. But what is being? Which are the beings? ...
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    Whitehead's actual occasions and the new infinitesimals
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25 (1). 1989.
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    Time and Experience
    In Michel Weber and Will Desmond (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 653-663. 2008.
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    Alfred North Whitehead (review)
    Process Studies 6 (2): 137-143. 1976.
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    The logic of simultaneity
    Journal of Philosophy 66 (11): 340-350. 1969.
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality and Nature in a Processive CosmosJohn W. LangoBrian G. Henning The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality and Nature in a Processive Cosmos University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 250 + xii pp.The aim of this interesting but flawed book by Brian Henning may be related through some remarks about the terms in its title.1 The term "creativity" stems from the most basic category in Whi…Read more
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    Is It Wrong to Intend to Do that Which It Is Wrong to Do?
    The Monist 70 (3): 316-329. 1987.
    Military deterrence by means of the threat to retaliate if attacked has traditionally involved two intentions—on the one hand, the unconditional intention to deter attack, and, on the other hand, the conditional intention to retaliate if attacked. Nuclear deterrence—that is, military deterrence using nuclear weapons—also involves both intentions, but at the cost of a moral quandary. On the one hand, there is the intention to deter attack in order to preserve peace and freedom. But, on the other …Read more
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    Does Whitehead's Metaphysics Contain an Ethics?
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (4). 2001.
  • Whitehead’s Ontology
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 10 (4): 260-265. 1972.
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    Time and Strict Partial Order
    American Philosophical Quarterly 37 (4). 2000.