. . . the military ethicist, has a new book out and an Op-Ed in the LA times (see the responses too).
Friday, May 1, 2015
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Workshop on Lethal Agency
Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
Tuesday 12th May, 2015
Långholmen Hotel, Stockholm
Speakers:
Speakers:
Matthew Hanser (UC Santa Barbara) 'Trying, Risking and Wronging’
Adil Ahmad Haque (Rutgers) 'Human Shields’
Victor Tadros (Warwick) 'Causal Contributions and Liability'
Patrick Tomlin (Reading) 'Proportionality and Probability'
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Call for Papers: The Future of Just War
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Future of Just War: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
Dates: October 7 – 9, 2015
Location: Naval Postgraduate School; Monterey, California
Deadline for submissions: May 15th, 2015
Notification of acceptance: June 15th, 2015
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.
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.
Submit extended abstracts or full papers to JWTConference@gmail.com as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Please put "Conference Submission" in the subject line of the email.
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.
Three graduate student stipends of $750 each will be offered to the best papers submitted by graduate students.
Organizing Committee: Bradley J. Strawser (chair), Fritz Allhoff, Helen Frowe, Rebecca Lorentz, and Amelia Simunek. Send any questions to JWTConference@gmail.com.
Keynote Speakers:
Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford
Adil Haque, Rutgers School of Law
Helen Frowe, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
Confirmed Speakers:
Saba Bazargan, UC San Diego
Leo Blanken, Naval Postgraduate School
Wilson Brissett, United States Air Force Academy
Susanne Burri, University of St. Gallen
Janina Dill, University of Oxford
Ian Fishback, United States Military Academy
Seth Lazar, The Australian National University
Camber Warren, Naval Postgraduate School
The Future of Just War: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
Dates: October 7 – 9, 2015
Location: Naval Postgraduate School; Monterey, California
Deadline for submissions: May 15th, 2015
Notification of acceptance: June 15th, 2015
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.
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.
Submit extended abstracts or full papers to JWTConference@gmail.com as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Please put "Conference Submission" in the subject line of the email.
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.
Three graduate student stipends of $750 each will be offered to the best papers submitted by graduate students.
Organizing Committee: Bradley J. Strawser (chair), Fritz Allhoff, Helen Frowe, Rebecca Lorentz, and Amelia Simunek. Send any questions to JWTConference@gmail.com.
Keynote Speakers:
Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford
Adil Haque, Rutgers School of Law
Helen Frowe, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
Confirmed Speakers:
Saba Bazargan, UC San Diego
Leo Blanken, Naval Postgraduate School
Wilson Brissett, United States Air Force Academy
Susanne Burri, University of St. Gallen
Janina Dill, University of Oxford
Ian Fishback, United States Military Academy
Seth Lazar, The Australian National University
Camber Warren, Naval Postgraduate School
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
McMahan lecture tomorrow at LSE
We are delighted to announce this year's Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture by Professor Jeff McMahan (Oxford)
Wednesday 11 March, 6:30-8 pm.
Liability, Proportionality and the Number of Aggressors
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
All are welcome; no tickets required.
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.
Further info on:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2015/03/20150311t1830vHKT.aspx
With best wishes,
Alex Voorhoeve
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
All are welcome; no tickets required.
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.
Further info on:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2015/03/20150311t1830vHKT.aspx
With best wishes,
Alex Voorhoeve
Want to do a PhD in Military ethics in Australia?
PhD Scholarship in Military Ethics at the University of New South Wales.
UNSW Canberra – located at the Australian Defence Force Academy - is
offering a 3-year PhD Scholarship for a project on “What Motivates
Enlistment and Why it Matters, Morally and Politically”.
Traditionally the military has been thought of as an institution, not unlike
the Church, whose members answer a “higher calling” to sacrifice their
interests, ambitions, and if need be their lives for the sake of a greater
good. But according to some historians and sociologists the military now
resembles an occupation, governed by market principles, where workers
exchange their labour for material reward. Careerism, a fixation on building
a resume for post-military employment, and an ever greater reliance on
extrinsic incentives are the hallmarks of what George Moskos calls the
“occupational shift” in the modern military.
What are the ethical and political implications of the occupational shift?
If soldiers are employees, should familiar employee rights and labour
standards apply to them? Does the occupational shift threaten to obliterate
the moral distinction between national armed forces personnel and
mercenaries? Are “employee warriors” more or less likely to conduct
themselves in accordance with the principles of Just War Theory? Are they
more or less likely to show organizational commitment and loyalty? UNSW
Canberra is offering a PhD Scholarship to a suitably qualified candidate
interested in pursuing these and related questions.
The successful applicant, subject to admission to the UNSW Canberra PhD
program, will be awarded a Research Training Scholarship with an annual
tax-free stipend of AUD$26,392. This scholarship is for a period of 3 years,
subject to satisfactory progress reviews along the way. Applicants should
hold a Masters degree or an undergraduate qualification with first class
honours, preferably in ethics/philosophy, politics, or a cognate discipline.
For further information please contact:
Ned Dobos
Email: n.dobos@adfa.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 6268 6273
UNSW Canberra – located at the Australian Defence Force Academy - is
offering a 3-year PhD Scholarship for a project on “What Motivates
Enlistment and Why it Matters, Morally and Politically”.
Traditionally the military has been thought of as an institution, not unlike
the Church, whose members answer a “higher calling” to sacrifice their
interests, ambitions, and if need be their lives for the sake of a greater
good. But according to some historians and sociologists the military now
resembles an occupation, governed by market principles, where workers
exchange their labour for material reward. Careerism, a fixation on building
a resume for post-military employment, and an ever greater reliance on
extrinsic incentives are the hallmarks of what George Moskos calls the
“occupational shift” in the modern military.
What are the ethical and political implications of the occupational shift?
If soldiers are employees, should familiar employee rights and labour
standards apply to them? Does the occupational shift threaten to obliterate
the moral distinction between national armed forces personnel and
mercenaries? Are “employee warriors” more or less likely to conduct
themselves in accordance with the principles of Just War Theory? Are they
more or less likely to show organizational commitment and loyalty? UNSW
Canberra is offering a PhD Scholarship to a suitably qualified candidate
interested in pursuing these and related questions.
The successful applicant, subject to admission to the UNSW Canberra PhD
program, will be awarded a Research Training Scholarship with an annual
tax-free stipend of AUD$26,392. This scholarship is for a period of 3 years,
subject to satisfactory progress reviews along the way. Applicants should
hold a Masters degree or an undergraduate qualification with first class
honours, preferably in ethics/philosophy, politics, or a cognate discipline.
For further information please contact:
Ned Dobos
Email: n.dobos@adfa.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 6268 6273
Conference in Cambridge
War & Strife in Ancient Philosophy (being the fifth meeting 2015 Graduate Conference in Ancient
Philosophy)
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, 27th-28th March 2015.
Keynote Talks:
Lesley Brown (Oxford) ‘Philosophy as warfare? Plato’s Gigantomachia and other battles’
Angie Hobbs (Sheffield) 'The End of War? Heraclitus' Challenge and Plato's Response.'
Graduate Talks:
Jordan Corwin (University of Notre Dame) 'Strife and Justice from Hesiod to Parmenides'
Vincent Peluce (Central European University) 'Logos, Strife and Opposites in Heraclitus' Fragments'
Silvio Marino (University of Naples Federico II) 'Anomalia and Anomoiotes: Strife as Logical Principle
in Plato and Hippocratic Authors'
Pierre Ponchon (University of Tours) 'War as Principle? Plato against Thucydides and Heraclitus'
Grant Dowling (Columbia University) 'The City of Pigs as an Alternative Model of Justice in the
Republic'
Romeo Domdii Cliff (KU Leuven) 'War and Virtue in the Critias'
The conference programme, and details on how to register, might be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/waraphil2015/
For any queries, please email Michael Withey at mpw44@cam.ac.uk
Philosophy)
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, 27th-28th March 2015.
Keynote Talks:
Lesley Brown (Oxford) ‘Philosophy as warfare? Plato’s Gigantomachia and other battles’
Angie Hobbs (Sheffield) 'The End of War? Heraclitus' Challenge and Plato's Response.'
Graduate Talks:
Jordan Corwin (University of Notre Dame) 'Strife and Justice from Hesiod to Parmenides'
Vincent Peluce (Central European University) 'Logos, Strife and Opposites in Heraclitus' Fragments'
Silvio Marino (University of Naples Federico II) 'Anomalia and Anomoiotes: Strife as Logical Principle
in Plato and Hippocratic Authors'
Pierre Ponchon (University of Tours) 'War as Principle? Plato against Thucydides and Heraclitus'
Grant Dowling (Columbia University) 'The City of Pigs as an Alternative Model of Justice in the
Republic'
Romeo Domdii Cliff (KU Leuven) 'War and Virtue in the Critias'
The conference programme, and details on how to register, might be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/waraphil2015/
For any queries, please email Michael Withey at mpw44@cam.ac.uk
New paper by Charles H. Pence on military ethics
Here 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.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
graduate reading retreat
Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
2015 Graduate Reading Retreat
Bergamo University, Italy
10 – 11 September, 2015
Invited Faculty:
Seth Lazar (Philosophy, ANU)
Yitzhak Benbaji (Law, Tel Aviv)
Francois Tanguay-Renaud (Law, York University, Canada)Helen Frowe (Philosophy, Stockholm)
Jonathan Parry (Philosophy, Stockholm)Massimo Renzo (Philosophy, Warwick)
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.
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.
This event is kindly supported by the Philosophy Department of Bergamo University. (However, please direct all enquiries to Helen Frowe.)
2015 Graduate Reading Retreat
Bergamo University, Italy
10 – 11 September, 2015
Invited Faculty:
Seth Lazar (Philosophy, ANU)
Yitzhak Benbaji (Law, Tel Aviv)
Francois Tanguay-Renaud (Law, York University, Canada)Helen Frowe (Philosophy, Stockholm)
Jonathan Parry (Philosophy, Stockholm)Massimo Renzo (Philosophy, Warwick)
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.
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.
This event is kindly supported by the Philosophy Department of Bergamo University. (However, please direct all enquiries to Helen Frowe.)
Dr. Helen Frowe (www.helenfrowe.weebly.com)
Director, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
Wallenberg Academy Research Fellow,
Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden
helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se
Just published:
Helen Frowe, Defensive Killing (OUP)
Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang (eds.) How We Fight: Ethics in War (OUP)
Available through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at:
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199609857.do and
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199673438.do
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