tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60595885201650204122024-02-20T07:03:39.188-05:00Officer PhilosopherThe occasional comment about the philosophy of war: my view, not the military's.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-54182240736671434812016-01-12T21:01:00.003-05:002016-01-12T21:01:30.444-05:00Any Grad students doing ethics of war and peace?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
. . . <a href="http://stockholmcentre.org/event/grr2016/" target="_blank">this</a> looks like a great retreat!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-59167735244611309252015-11-19T13:26:00.001-05:002015-11-19T13:26:42.191-05:00Call for Papers - military medical ethics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
CfP: Military Medical Ethics and Hybrid Warfare<br />
ICMM Lilienberg Workshop 2016<br />
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For the sixth time, the ICMM Reference Centre for Education on IHL and Ethics together with the Medical Services Directorate of the Swiss Armed Forces and the Center for Military Medical Ethics at Zurich University organise their annual joint workshop at the shore of the Lake Constance.<br />
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Focus in 2016: Military Medical Ethics and Hybrid Warfare<br />
19-21 May 2016 at Forum Lilienberg in Ermatingen (CH).<br />
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The main topic of the 2016 workshop will be Military Medical Ethics and Hybrid Warfare. Much has been discussed about new forms of warfare and recent developments have proven that realities can change very fast. There has been much less discussion, however, on the implications of these new forms of warfare for the medical services. Our workshop wants to fill this gap and discuss ethical challenges for military and civil health care services that emerge out of new forms of deployment and conflict scenarios.<br />
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We invite papers/presentations on topics addressing ethical questions faced by medical services in the context of so-called hybrid warfare. We equally encourage reports from the field (e.g. case studies) as well as philosophic papers or legal analyses.<br />
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Presentations are expected to last 25 minutes in order to leave enough time for discussion. The presentations will be edited in a comprehensive book on MME in Hybrid Warfare (see section Conference Proceedings in the full CfP (PDF)).<br />
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Full CfP with instructions: <a href="http://melac.ch/images/PDF/LILI2016-CfP.pdf">http://melac.ch/images/PDF/LILI2016-CfP.pdf</a><br />
CfP online: <a href="http://melac.ch/71-call-for-papers-lilienberg-workshop-2016">http://melac.ch/71-call-for-papers-lilienberg-workshop-2016</a> <br />
General Information: <a href="http://workshop.melac.ch/">http://workshop.melac.ch</a> <br />
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Kind regards<br />
Daniel Messelken<br />
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Dr. phil. Daniel Messelken<br />
Center for Military Medical Ethics<br />
Zollikerstr. 117, CH 8008 Zürich<br />
<a href="http://www.melac.ch/">http://www.melac.ch</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-74703554971651789532015-10-28T21:01:00.002-04:002015-10-28T21:01:50.966-04:00Interesting post on drone warfare<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Clearly there is much that Marianne Talbot is not aware of in the drone warfare discussions. The recent conference put on by the US Naval Postgraduate seminar might be a good place to look for people who are studying this issue deeply. However, her <a href="http://mariannetalbot.co.uk/2015/10/28/drones-robots-and-the-ethics-of-armed-conflict-in-the-21st-century/" target="_blank">recent post</a> about a weekend conference she held is interesting nonetheless. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-74426780296682712692015-10-02T14:26:00.001-04:002015-10-02T14:26:26.544-04:00Call for Papers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This item may interest some readers of this blog: <br /><br />Theme: Just War Theory in an African Context<br />Type: International Workshop<br />Institution: University of Johannesburg<br />Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng (South Africa)<br />Date: 4.–5.4.2016<br />Deadline: 30.11.2015<br />__________________________________________________<br /><br />Just War Theory originated largely in a Christian and European<br />context. What might it look like through the lens of<br />characteristically sub-Saharan African values and norms?<br /><br />Answering this overarching question might involve addressing these:<br />Given a sub-Saharan ethical background, of, say, welfarism, vitalism<br />or communitarianism, would something akin to Just War Theory be<br />justified, or would something more pacifist (or realist) be apt? If<br />something akin to Just War Theory is on the cards, would the idea of<br />just cause be reducible to rebutting aggression? Regardless of that,<br />how would aggression be conceived? How might the good and bad central<br />to the proportionality test be plausibly understood? Might the<br />partiality salient in sub-Saharan ethical thought sensibly influence<br />what counts as proportionate? Would substantial weight be placed on<br />the need for a right intention? Would authorization from the United<br />Nations or some other collective body be considered essential in<br />light of, say, the emphasis African political philosophy has often<br />placed on democratic deliberation when it comes to conflict<br />resolution?<br /><br />Prof Thaddeus Metz will be convening a one- or two-day workshop at<br />the University of Johannesburg devoted to these and related questions<br />(4-5 April 2016). If you are interested in participating, please send<br />a brief (100 – 300 word) abstract to <a href="mailto:tmetz@uj.ac.za">tmetz@uj.ac.za</a> by 30 November<br />2015. Workshop proceedings will aim to be published as a special<br />issue of a journal.<br /><br />Some funding will be available to mitigate the cost of traveling to<br />Johannesburg, particularly for those based in developing countries.<br /><br />(NB: Empirical discussion of particular wars and military conflicts<br />in Africa is welcome, but only so long as it is done to make a<br />theoretical or philosophical point.)<br /><br /><br />Contact:<br /><br />Prof Thaddeus Metz<br />Philosophy Department<br />University of Johannesburg<br />B-Ring 6, Cnr Kingsway & University Road<br />Auckland Park, 2006<br />South Africa<br />Email: <a href="mailto:tmetz@uj.ac.za">tmetz@uj.ac.za</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-24728672432813514032015-07-29T11:05:00.003-04:002015-07-29T11:05:43.318-04:00Workshop: Frowe's Defensive Killing and Lazar's Sparing Civilians, NYC 29 - 30 Sept<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Call for Registration: Workshop on Helen Frowe’s <a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199609857.do">Defensive Killing</a> (Oxford: OUP, 2014) and Seth Lazar’s <a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198712985.do">Sparing Civilians</a><a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198712985.do"> (</a>Oxford: OUP, in press).<br /><br />Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs<br />170 East 64th Street, New York<br />29 - 30 September, 2015<br /><br />Speakers:<br />Jeff McMahan (Oxford)<br />Adil Haque (Rutgers)<br />Cheyney Ryan (Oregon and Oxford)<br />Massimo Renzo (King's College London)<br />Kimberly Ferzan (Virginia)<br />Christian Barry (ANU)<br />Yitzhak Benbaji (Tel Aviv)<br />Victor Tadros (Warwick)<br /><br /><div>
The workshop is sponsored by the Australian Research Council, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and the Society for Applied Philosophy. The workshop is free to attend (including lunch and refreshments), but places are limited. Participants are expected to read both books in advance (pdfs will be made available to those who register). Please email <a href="http://jonathan.parry@philosophy.su.se/">jonathan.parry@philosophy.su.se </a>to reserve a place.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-72870387114296349352015-06-04T14:10:00.000-04:002015-06-04T14:10:03.082-04:00New Ethics and War blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace has launched a new blog that you may be interested in reading.<br /><br /><a href="http://stockholmcentre.org/category/ethical-war-blog/">The Ethical War Blog</a> will publish short and timely opinion articles on war-related topics in the news, written by specialists in the field, in an accessible and digestible format. <br /><br /><div>
The blog launches with five articles, with new content to be added continuously:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Prof. James Pattison asks whether arming rebels in conflicts such as Syria is preferable to military intervention. [<a href="http://stockholmcentre.org/should-we-send-weapons-or-troops-the-ethics-of-supplying-arms-vs-military-intervention/">LINK</a>]</li>
<li>Prof. Adil Ahmed Haque discusses ISIS, cultural destruction, and international law. [<a href="http://stockholmcentre.org/cultural-property-under-the-law-of-armed-conflic/">LINK</a>]</li>
<li>Prof. Yitzhak Benbaji and Prof. Alexander Yakobsen assess the morality of Hamas’ tactics during Operation Protective Edge [<a href="http://stockholmcentre.org/hamas-gaza-and-the-terrorists-code-of-ethics/">LINK</a>]</li>
<li>Dr. Jonathan Peterson asks whether defending cultural objects can justify waging war against ISIS. [<a href="http://stockholmcentre.org/in-defense-of-objects/">LINK</a>]</li>
<li>Prof. David Rodin discusses the conflict between the right to free speech and the duty to avoid causing harm in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. [<a href="http://stockholmcentre.org/killing-and-cartoons/">LINK</a>]</li>
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For more information about the blog (including if you would be interested in contributing), please get in touch with Jonathan Parry at <a href="mailto:jonathan.parry@philosophy.su.se">jonathan.parry@philosophy.su.se</a>. And do please circulate this to anyone you think may be interested.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-80905992909841247532015-05-25T21:45:00.000-04:002015-05-25T21:45:03.877-04:00Call for Chapters: Force Short of War<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Call for Chapters<br /><br /> - - - Please distribute widely - - -<br /><br />Force Short of War: A Multidisciplinary Normative Approach<br /><br />Jai Galliott (University of New South Wales, Kensington)<br /><br />& Daniel Brunstetter (University of California, Irvine)<br /><br />The use of force short of war is now commonplace, in large part owing to casualty aversiveness and the explosion of emerging technologies. It usually involves the selective or limited use of military force by a state to achieve political objectives and assumes many forms. These include targeted killing, assassination, setting up no-fly zones, special-forces raids, very limited duration bombing campaigns or missile strikes, and ‘low intensity’ counterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. However, ‘force short of war’ also encompasses the provision of military support for regime stabilization or regime change through support of secessionist/independence movements. This multi-disciplinary volume asks a number of questions about the moral, legal and political status of such operations, the strategic situations in which such force is best used, and whether existing rules and regulations are sufficiently robust to deal with the moral challenges the use of limited force entails.<br /><br />We welcome high quality abstracts from philosophers, lawyers, political/international relations theorists, strategists and other concerned researchers on any topic from the following (non-exhaustive) list:<br /><br />- the difference between war and force short of war (and/or limited force)<br /><br />- the role of traditional just war theory in modern conflict<br /><br />- the need for a new third tenet: jus ad vim<br /><br />- the limits of force short of war<br /><br />- IHL and force short of war<br /><br />- legitimate authority/authorisation of force short of war<br /><br />- Low intensity conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere<br /><br />- targeted killing and assassination<br /><br />- regime change<br /><br />- secession<br /><br />- drones<br /><br />- links to the invasion of sovereignty<br /><br />- autonomous systems<br /><br />- cyber warfare<br /><br />- the politics of force short of war<br /><br />- the history of conflicts short of war<br /><br />- counterinsurgency (guerilla) operations<br /><br />- counterterrorism operations<br /><br />- military/police dichotomy in conflict<br /><br />- the ethics of arming rebels<br /><br />- limited force and the responsibility to protect (R2P)<br /><br />- the role of sanctions<br /><br />- providing limited military force to help other governments fighting civil wars<br /><br />- force short of war and the connection to peace<br /><br />Abstracts should be 200 words in length, clearly convey the core argument of the proposed chapter and show a strong thematic connection. All abstracts should be accompanied by a biosketch of up to 150 words, detailing one's qualifications and research interests. Full papers are expected to be 7,000-8,000 words. We have interest from a ‘Category A’ university publisher and confirmed options with a ‘Category B’ press (A-E scale).<br /><br />All submissions and questions should be directed to: <a href="mailto:jaichristiangalliott@gmail.com">jaichristiangalliott@gmail.com</a>.<br /><br />Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2015<br /><br />Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2015<br /> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-43343556767858003062015-05-07T20:54:00.000-04:002015-05-07T20:56:57.228-04:00Cécile Fabre on military ethics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Cécile Fabre has an interesting <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/679562?" target="_blank">article on military ethics in the journal <i>Ethics</i></a>. She argues that we ought to separate the ethical issues involved in starting a war from the ethical issues involved in ending it. That sounds right to me. The article is also fairly thorough. You can comment on it at <a href="http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2015/05/ethics-discussions-at-pea-soup-cecile-fabres-war-exit-with-critical-precis-by-helen-frowe.html" target="_blank">PEA Soup</a> where you can also find a critical introduction by Helen Frowe. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-28103790754281720462015-05-03T21:44:00.000-04:002015-05-03T21:44:04.611-04:00War and Peace in Political Thought - graduate conference, Budapest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Central European University </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">(CEU), Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE) jointly organize the First Istvan Hont Graduate Conference in Political Thought. The conference commemorates the legacy of Istvan Hont (1947-2013), influential Hungarian-born lecturer and writer on the history of political thought, Fellow of Kin</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">g's College at the University of Cambridge.</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">The "next war"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.9499998092651px;"> the “last war”, hyperreal war, cyber war, hybrid warfare, drones, crisis theory</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">Please submit your proposal of 300-400 words to <a href="mailto:hont.conf.2015@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hont.conf.2015@gmail.<wbr></wbr>com</a> together with your name and affiliation. The deadline for submitting proposals is </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 14.7200002670288px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">May 31, 2015</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-2452531582543227602015-05-01T20:59:00.001-04:002015-05-01T20:59:36.543-04:00Nancy Sherman . . .<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
. . . the military ethicist, has a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Afterwar-Healing-Moral-Wounds-Soldiers/dp/0199325278/" target="_blank">new book out</a> and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sherman-moral-injury-veterans-20150426-story.html" target="_blank">an Op-Ed in the LA times</a> (see the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0501-friday-moral-injury-20150501-story.html" target="_blank">responses too</a>). </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-87421250444123463842015-04-21T12:46:00.000-04:002015-04-21T12:46:04.831-04:00Workshop on Lethal Agency<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This small workshop will focus on philosophical issues surrounding lethal agency. <strong>Papers will be pre-circulation only</strong>, and should be read in advance. Attendance is free, but places are limited. Please email <a href="mailto:jonathan.parry@philosophy.su.se" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">Jonathan Parry</a> (<a href="mailto:jonathan.parry@philosophy.su.se" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">jonathan.parry@<wbr></wbr>philosophy.su.se</a>) to register. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-33644875620450087522015-04-09T00:32:00.000-04:002015-04-09T00:32:11.125-04:00Call for Papers: The Future of Just War<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
CALL FOR PAPERS:<br /><br />The Future of Just War: Theoretical and Practical Challenges<br /><br />Dates: October 7 – 9, 2015<br /><br />Location: Naval Postgraduate School; Monterey, California<br /><br />Deadline for submissions: May 15th, 2015<br />Notification of acceptance: June 15th, 2015<br /><br />Any paper on any topic related to the ethics of war, just war theory, the moral implications for the future of warfare, or related issues will be considered. However, some preference will be given to papers that consider the ethical implications of new, emerging, and future military technology and the resulting changing nature of warfare. The conference organizers are specifically hoping for strong ethics papers on cyberwarfare and unmanned and robotic weapons systems. We also hope to have an interdisciplinary event and welcome submissions from a range of fields including, but not limited to: philosophy, law, public policy, political science, or related fields. Submissions from active scientists, researchers, or practitioners are also welcome, particularly insofar as those presentations could complement the ethics theme of the conference.<br /><br />To submit a paper for consideration, please submit an extended abstract of 500 to 800 words. Full papers will also be considered. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.<br /><br />Submit extended abstracts or full papers to <a href="mailto:JWTConference@gmail.com">JWTConference@gmail.com</a> as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Please put "Conference Submission" in the subject line of the email.<br /><br />The conference is hosted by the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School with generous support from the Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research, and in collaboration with the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace and the National Science Foundation.<br /><br />Three graduate student stipends of $750 each will be offered to the best papers submitted by graduate students.<br /><br />Organizing Committee: Bradley J. Strawser (chair), Fritz Allhoff, Helen Frowe, Rebecca Lorentz, and Amelia Simunek. Send any questions to <a href="mailto:JWTConference@gmail.com">JWTConference@gmail.com</a>.<br /><br />Keynote Speakers:<br /><br />Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford<br />Adil Haque, Rutgers School of Law<br />Helen Frowe, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace<br /><br />Confirmed Speakers:<br /><br />Saba Bazargan, UC San Diego<br />Leo Blanken, Naval Postgraduate School<br />Wilson Brissett, United States Air Force Academy<br />Susanne Burri, University of St. Gallen<br />Janina Dill, University of Oxford<br />Ian Fishback, United States Military Academy<br />Seth Lazar, The Australian National University<br />Camber Warren, Naval Postgraduate School</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-21834923172428887142015-03-19T21:04:00.002-04:002015-03-19T21:04:56.824-04:00Review of Lango's The Ethics of Armed Conflict<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Review <a href="http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/56512-the-ethics-of-armed-conflict-a-cosmopolitan-just-war-theory/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-87468845311111414602015-03-10T16:47:00.001-04:002015-03-10T16:47:17.773-04:00McMahan lecture tomorrow at LSE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We are delighted to announce this year's Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture by Professor Jeff McMahan (Oxford)<br /><br /><div>
Wednesday 11 March, 6:30-8 pm.<br /></div>
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Liability, Proportionality and the Number of Aggressors<br />Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House<br />All are welcome; no tickets required.<br /><br />Jeff McMahan is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and the author of The Ethics of Killing: problems at the margins of life and Killing in War.<br />Further info on:<br /><a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2015/03/20150311t1830vHKT.aspx">http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2015/03/20150311t1830vHKT.aspx</a><br /><br />With best wishes,<br />Alex Voorhoeve</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-504830155643134232015-03-10T16:44:00.001-04:002015-03-10T16:44:19.661-04:00Want to do a PhD in Military ethics in Australia?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
PhD Scholarship in Military Ethics at the University of New South Wales.<br /><br />UNSW Canberra – located at the Australian Defence Force Academy - is<br />offering a 3-year PhD Scholarship for a project on “What Motivates<br />Enlistment and Why it Matters, Morally and Politically”.<br /><br />Traditionally the military has been thought of as an institution, not unlike<br />the Church, whose members answer a “higher calling” to sacrifice their<br />interests, ambitions, and if need be their lives for the sake of a greater<br />good. But according to some historians and sociologists the military now<br />resembles an occupation, governed by market principles, where workers<br />exchange their labour for material reward. Careerism, a fixation on building<br />a resume for post-military employment, and an ever greater reliance on<br />extrinsic incentives are the hallmarks of what George Moskos calls the<br />“occupational shift” in the modern military.<br /><br />What are the ethical and political implications of the occupational shift?<br />If soldiers are employees, should familiar employee rights and labour<br />standards apply to them? Does the occupational shift threaten to obliterate<br />the moral distinction between national armed forces personnel and<br />mercenaries? Are “employee warriors” more or less likely to conduct<br />themselves in accordance with the principles of Just War Theory? Are they<br />more or less likely to show organizational commitment and loyalty? UNSW<br />Canberra is offering a PhD Scholarship to a suitably qualified candidate<br />interested in pursuing these and related questions.<br /><br />The successful applicant, subject to admission to the UNSW Canberra PhD<br />program, will be awarded a Research Training Scholarship with an annual<br />tax-free stipend of AUD$26,392. This scholarship is for a period of 3 years,<br />subject to satisfactory progress reviews along the way. Applicants should<br />hold a Masters degree or an undergraduate qualification with first class<br />honours, preferably in ethics/philosophy, politics, or a cognate discipline.<br /><br />For further information please contact:<br /><br />Ned Dobos<br />Email: <a href="mailto:n.dobos@adfa.edu.au">n.dobos@adfa.edu.au</a><br />Phone: <a href="tel:%2B61%202%206268%206273">+61 2 6268 6273</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-91630472528875581052015-03-10T13:15:00.002-04:002015-03-10T13:15:23.598-04:00Military ethics conference at West Point<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Details <a href="http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/ethics/conference.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-77414807683015846582015-03-10T13:13:00.004-04:002015-03-10T13:13:26.040-04:00Conference in Cambridge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
War & Strife in Ancient Philosophy (being the fifth meeting 2015 Graduate Conference in Ancient<br />Philosophy)<br /><br />Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, 27th-28th March 2015.<br /><br />Keynote Talks:<br /><br />Lesley Brown (Oxford) ‘Philosophy as warfare? Plato’s Gigantomachia and other battles’<br /><br />Angie Hobbs (Sheffield) 'The End of War? Heraclitus' Challenge and Plato's Response.'<br /><br />Graduate Talks:<br /><br />Jordan Corwin (University of Notre Dame) 'Strife and Justice from Hesiod to Parmenides'<br /><br />Vincent Peluce (Central European University) 'Logos, Strife and Opposites in Heraclitus' Fragments'<br /><br />Silvio Marino (University of Naples Federico II) 'Anomalia and Anomoiotes: Strife as Logical Principle<br />in Plato and Hippocratic Authors'<br /><br />Pierre Ponchon (University of Tours) 'War as Principle? Plato against Thucydides and Heraclitus'<br /><br />Grant Dowling (Columbia University) 'The City of Pigs as an Alternative Model of Justice in the<br />Republic'<br /><br />Romeo Domdii Cliff (KU Leuven) 'War and Virtue in the Critias'<br /><br />The conference programme, and details on how to register, might be found here:<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/waraphil2015/">https://sites.google.com/site/waraphil2015/</a><br /><br /><br />For any queries, please email Michael Withey at <a href="mailto:mpw44@cam.ac.uk">mpw44@cam.ac.uk</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-28130747108449746502015-03-10T13:11:00.001-04:002015-03-10T13:11:09.900-04:00New paper by Charles H. Pence on military ethics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://www.academia.edu/11352499/Military_Genomic_Testing_Proportionality_Expected_Benefits_and_the_Connection_between_Genotypes_and_Phenotypes" target="_blank">Here</a> Pence argues that the military's use of genomics must be guided by an understanding of the connection between genotype and phenotype. However this is something too challenging to do. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-55403577864048702572015-01-10T15:26:00.000-05:002015-01-10T15:26:06.369-05:00graduate reading retreat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace<br />
2015 Graduate Reading Retreat <br />
Bergamo University, Italy<br />
10 – 11 September, 2015<br />
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Invited Faculty:<br />
<a href="http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/profile/seth-lazar">Seth Lazar</a> (Philosophy, ANU)<br />
<a href="http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/law/researcher.asp?id=aglekehef">Yitzhak Benbaji</a> (Law, Tel Aviv)<br />
<a href="http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-staff/tanguay-renaud-francois/">Francois Tanguay-Renaud </a>(Law, York University, Canada)<a href="http://www.philosophy.su.se/english/research/our-researchers/faculty/helen-frowe-1.154827">Helen Frowe</a> (Philosophy, Stockholm)<br />
<a href="http://www.stockholmcentre.org/jonathan-parry.html">Jonathan Parry</a> (Philosophy, Stockholm)<a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/faculty/renzo/">Massimo Renzo</a> (Philosophy, Warwick)<br />
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The Stockholm Centre is now inviting submissions for its next annual Graduate Reading Retreat. The 2015 Retreat will take place at Bergamo University, Italy. Up to six places are available for graduate students doing philosophical work in the field of the ethics of war and peace. Each student will have a plenary session (30 minute presentation, 15 minute response and an hour's discussion) on their submitted paper. All papers will be pre-circulated and each student will be allocated a respondent from the invited faculty, who will provide both written comments and a short response during the session. Any student who has their paper accepted will receive a generous contribution towards their travel, and will have the costs of all their meals and accommodation covered. <br />
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Those wishing to submit a paper should email it to helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se no later than 1st of March 2015. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words, excluding references, and should be suitable for blind-refereeing. Please note that submitted papers should be unpublished, and not be under review at the time of the retreat. Please include your name, email address and affiliation in the submitting email, along with a one page CV. You should also attach a letter from your supervisor or head of department confirming that as of the 1st of March 2015 you are registered as a graduate student or within three months of your viva, and confirming your year of study. Please do not include letters of reference or other supporting materials. Papers are selected on merit. However, some preference will be given to students who did not participate in the 2014 GRR.<br />
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This event is kindly supported by the <a href="http://www.unibg.it/struttura/en_struttura.asp?cerca=en_dlam_intro">Philosophy Department of Bergamo University</a>. (However, please direct all enquiries to Helen Frowe.)</div>
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Dr. Helen Frowe (<a href="http://www.helenfrowe.weebly.com/">www.helenfrowe.weebly.com</a>)<br />
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Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden<br />
helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se<br />
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Just published: <br />
Helen Frowe, Defensive Killing (OUP)<br />
Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang (eds.) How We Fight: Ethics in War (OUP)<br />
Available through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: <br />
<a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199609857.do">http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199609857.do</a> and <br />
<a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199673438.do">http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199673438.do</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-62760722761175038232014-12-18T13:11:00.000-05:002014-12-18T13:11:50.072-05:00Review of Frowe and Lang's new book How We Fight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Very nice review of Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang's new book <i><a href="http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/54866-how-we-fight-ethics-in-war/" target="_blank">How We Fight: Ethics in war</a></i>. The book as a whole sounds interesting if you are into the kind of stuff discussed, which I am.<br />
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However, the reviewer makes some very important points at the end of his review which I think are worth repeating and adding to. The reviewer points out the conservative nature of the anthology and the fact that this is a problem. By this he means that the questions that are dealt with in the book are standard old questions of just war theory (JWT) and the methodology is that of technical analytic philosophy. I agree. More importantly, as the reviewer points out, good just war theory is able to guide policy makers and perhaps even soldiers make real decisions about real issues.<br />
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On that note, I'd also like to point out that although the cast of authors consists mostly of outstanding scholars, there is only one (best I can tell) of the lot who is a veteran of a military or a policy maker. Perhaps such collections would look different if they included and took into account more of such people. There are certainly no lack of scholars who have experience in militaries and with shaping military policy. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-61326377317383410882014-12-02T12:14:00.000-05:002014-12-02T12:14:11.832-05:00Workshop on Analytic Just War Theory<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;">Jindal Global University, New Delhi</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">The past decade has seen a surge of interest in the ethics of war amongst political, moral, and legal analytic philosophers. This is due in no small part to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the related issues of terrorism and drone use, and the number of recent civil conflicts in which it seems third parties might be permitted or required to intervene. There is a considerable amount of scholarship being undertaken in India that addresses some of these issues from a legal perspective. But there is surprisingly little work being done on the ethics of war per se, outside of some key historical, religious, and interpretive theological debates. Indeed, at present, there is virtually no philosophical work being done on the ethics of war in the analytic tradition—even in terms of how these may relate to the laws of war that India has claimed to adhere to ever since its independence. </span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">This workshop is a pilot event that is intended to be part of a larger project engaging with Indian researchers who are interested in participating in the very active debate currently going on in analytic just war theory, and developing international collaborative links with those researchers. </span><span style="font-family: Droid Sans;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">The workshop will be led by Helen Frowe (Director, Stockholm Centre for </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">the</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> Ethics of War and Peace) and François Tanguay-Renaud (Director, Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre). Key texts in contemporary just war theory will be assigned and form the basis of our discussion. Participants will be asked to prepare a brief comment or reaction piece, which they will be invited to present on the day. Attendance is free, but participants must register in advance by </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">emailing </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="mailto:jwtconference2015@gmail.com" style="line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">jwtconference2015@<wbr></wbr>gmail.com</a>. More information can be found <a href="http://www.stockholmcentre.org/delhi-workshop-on-the-analytic-just-war.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: small;">Please note that lunch will be served, and that the workshop will be followed by a dinner.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-9282704786779331482014-11-21T12:41:00.001-05:002014-11-21T12:41:16.009-05:00Smart weapons vs killer robots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="url fn" href="http://warontherocks.com/author/michael-horowitz/" rel="author" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.18s ease-out; background-color: white; color: #666667; line-height: 21.65625px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; word-spacing: 2px;" title="Posts by Michael Horowitz">Michael Horowitz</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666667; line-height: 21.65625px; word-spacing: 2px;"> and </span><a class="url fn" href="http://warontherocks.com/author/paul-scharre/" rel="author" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.18s ease-out; background-color: white; color: #666667; line-height: 21.65625px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.18s ease-out; word-spacing: 2px;" title="Posts by Paul Scharre">Paul Scharre</a> have an interesting <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/killer-robots-save-lives-113010.html">article</a> about the difference between smart weapons and killer robots. Worth reading. (H/T WOTR)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-82037708965280474722014-11-21T12:25:00.000-05:002014-11-21T12:33:29.742-05:00Philosophy Now - war and peace issue<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.philosophynow.org/">Philosophy Now</a> just came out with a<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Now/dp/B004K6LHLG"> war and peace issue</a>. </span>They seemed to have put together an interesting and diverse set of contributors - including David Boersema, David P. Barash, Duane Cady, Andrew Fiala, and Dr Anja Steinbauer. It would have been nice however for them to have included someone with actual foreign policy or military experience.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-26948695825572106552014-10-07T16:20:00.003-04:002014-10-07T16:20:47.068-04:00Ethical decision making in networked military operations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-10-military-networks-elicit-errors.html">Christine Boshuijzen's PhD thesis</a> is an interesting project on ethical decision making in networked military operations. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059588520165020412.post-42163203870281423492014-09-30T10:48:00.002-04:002014-09-30T10:48:59.363-04:00Nancy Sherman, philosopher to the military<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
. . . interviewed <a href="http://philosophyforlife.org/nancy-sherman-the-soldiers-philosopher/">here</a>. </div>
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