NP336 Philosophy of Religion NP485 Christian and Islamic Just War Theory NP485C Jihadist Theology SCHOLARSHIP AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY Books An Ethics of Interrogation (University of Chicago Press, 2010) Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles "Seeking a Variable Standard of Individual Moral Responsibility in Organizations," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 17, no. 2, (Apr 2014). “The Rights of Irregular Combatants,” International Journal of Intelligence Ethics, vol. 2, no. 1, (spr 2011): 35-49. “Intelligence Ethics and Non-Coercive Interrogation,” Defense Intelligence Journal, 16-1 (2007): 61-76. “Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach and Religion,” Journal of Religion, vol. 84 (July 2004): 379-409. “Just War Criteria and the New Face of War,” Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 1, (Spring 2003): 27-39; reprinted in Military Ethics, eds. C.A.J. Coady and Igor Primorantz, (Ashgate, 2008); Ethics and the Military Profession, eds. George Lucas and Rick Rubel (Pearson, 2011). Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters “Ethical Perspectives on Interrogation: An analysis of Contemporary Techniques,” with Maria Hartwig and Timothy Luke, in The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics, (New York, NY: Routledge Press, 2016). “Moral Implications of Data-Mining, Key-word Searches, and Targeted Electronic Surveillance,” Binary Bullets, eds. Bradley Strawser and Fritz Alhoff, (Oxford University Press, 2015.) “An Empirical Defense of the Moral Equality of Combatants,” in When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military, eds. Andrea Ellner, Paul Robinson & David Whetham, (Ashgate, 2013). “Jesus and Mars: The Christian Just War Tradition,” in Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, and Armed Conflict Law, ed. David Linnan, (Praeger, 2008)
“Interrogation Ethics in the Context of Intelligence Collection,” in Ethics of Spying: A Reader for Intelligence Professionals, ed. Jan Goldman, (Scarecrow Press, 2006) Book Reviews Mainstreaming Torture, by Rebecca Gordon, Journal of Religion 96.1 (2015). Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought, by Richard B. Miller, Journal of Law and Religion 27.2 (2011-12), 495. Morality and War, by David Fisher, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 80.3 (2012), 820-22. PUBLICATIONS IN PROCESS Book Soldiers and Soldiers: The Equality of Combatants Winner of 2013 American Philosophical Association Charles Sharp Memorial Prize for best unpublished manuscript on military ethics. Sent out for review. Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority, co-editor with Claire Finkelstein, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press). Military Virtues, co-series editor with David Whetham, (Hampshire, UK: Howgate Publishing, forthcoming) Article “A Moral Foundation for Government Secrecy,” in Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority, co-edited with Claire Finkelstein, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press). “Humility” in Military Virtues, accepted by co-editors Feb. 2018. “Compassion for Enemies,” co-written with Lt. Gen John Sattler, in Military Virtues, submitted to co-editors, Apr. 2018. “Individual Responsibility for Collective Actions,” in Routledge Handbook on Collective Responsibility, ed. Saba Bazargan and Deborah Tollefson, draft submitted June 2017; second draft due May 2018. “Moral Concerns Associated with Rapport-based Interrogation Techniques: The Case of the Perkins Interrogator,” in Torture and Interrogation: Research on Efficacy and its Integration
discussion “Can They Do That? Ethical Concerns Regarding Interrogation,” HIG Research Symposium, Oct. 16, 2013. [Canceled because of government shutdown.] “The Rights of Irregular Combatants,” Naval Postgraduate School, May 22, 2013. Considerations in Designing New Interrogation Methods,” National Research Council Conference on the Science of Interrogation, Washington DC, Sept 7, 2012. “An Ethics of Interrogation,” HIG Research Unit Meeting, Washington DC, Aug 16, 2012. “Response to David Rodin’s ‘The War Trap: Paradoxes and Dilemmas of Jus Terminatio,’” Ethics, Law, Armed Conflict Conference, Oxford University, Aug. 31, 2012. “Should a Captured bin Laden be Mirandized?” McCain Conference, Annapolis, MD, Mar 2011. “A Brief Introduction to Christian Just War Theory,” Barnes Symposium, University of South Carolina Law School, Apr. 2005. REFEREED PRESENTATIONS “A Contractualist Objection to Autonomous Weapon Systems,” Euro ISME, Toledo, Spain, May 14, 2018. “A Contractualist Foundation for Jus in Bello,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, Apr 7, 2018. “Historical Challenges to Revisionist and Conventionalist Just War Theory” The Future of Just War Theory Conference, Monterrey, CA, Sept 2015. “Medieval and Modern Views of the Moral Equality of Combatants, McCain Conference, Annapolis, MD, Apr 20, 2015. “The Moral Gravity of Selective Conscientious Objection,” Euro International Society of Military Ethics Conference, Shrivenham, UK, June 15, 2012. “An Empirical Re-Framing of the Question of the Moral Equality of Combatants,” International Society of Military Ethics Conference, San Diego, Jan. 2012. “Possible Moral Foundations for the Privilege against Compelled Self-Incrimination,” Association of Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference, Providence, Mar. 2010. “POW rights for Irregular Combatants?” International Society of Military Ethics Conference, San Diego, Jan. 2010.