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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
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    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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    Evaluating the Iraq War by Just War Principles
    Teaching Ethics 5 (1): 79-82. 2004.
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    Is 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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    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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    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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    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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    Fitch's Method and Whitehead's Metaphysics
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38 (4). 2002.
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    Overlapping Networks of Tropes
    Modern Schoolman 79 (2-3): 217-234. 2002.
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    Global Policy and the United Nations
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (1): 105-115. 2009.
    President Barack Obama should strive to realize the ideal goals expressed in the UN Charter. Accordingly, the concept of U.S. foreign policy should be replaced by a concept of UN global policy. Relatedly, the traditional concept of national security should be replaced by a cosmopolitan concept of global state and human security. Topics discussed include the role of the Security Council, the responsibility to protect (R2P), just war principles, UN peacekeeping operations, genocide in Darfur, trea…Read more
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    Towards Clarifying Whitehead's Theory of Concrescence
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 7 (3). 1971.
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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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    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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    Does Whitehead's Metaphysics Contain an Ethics?
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (4). 2001.
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    Relation instances and musical sounds
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78 (2). 2000.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Traditionally, the just war principle of last resort requires that, before resorting to war, every reasonable alternative measure must be attempted. My view is that traditional just war principles should be generalized, so as to be applicable to military actions of all sorts—for example, armed humanitarian interventions and counterinsurgency operations. In this paper, such a generalized just war theory is presupposed. In particular, I shall presuppose a generalized last resort principle that req…Read more
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    Rethinking the Just War Tradition (edited book)
    with Michael W. Brough and Harry van der Linden
    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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    Time and Strict Partial Order
    American Philosophical Quarterly 37 (4). 2000.
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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.