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Ethics and Cyber Warfare

The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare

By: George R. Lucas

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Ethics and Cyber Warfare

The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare

By: George R. Lucas

State sponsored hacktivism" constitutes a wholly new alternative to conventional armed conflict. This book explores the ethical and legal dimensions of this "soft" mode warfare grounded in a broad revisionist approach to military ethics and "just war theory" that results in a new code of ethics for today's "cyber warriors.

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Oxford University Press

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0190276525

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9780190276522

Military Ethics

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: George R. Lucas

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Military Ethics

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: George R. Lucas

A comprehensive and case-driven account of the core ethical principles of the "Profession of Arms," together with a description of the rigorous ethical demands and moral dilemmas these principles impose upon individuals, both in and beyond combat. A thorough but readable, engaging account addressed both to military personnel and the wider public.

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Oxford University Press

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0199336881

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9780199336883

The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy

By: George R. Lucas Jr.

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The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy

By: George R. Lucas Jr.

Lucas treats Whitehead within the framework of major themes in current Anglo-American "analytic" philosophy, viewed against the backdrop of significant historical trends in European and American thought since the Enlightenment. This most misunderstood of twentieth-century philosophers is critically interpreted here. Whitehead had developed 50 years ago some ideas only now emerging in analytic philosophy. Lucas examines the significance of Whitehead's thought for current epistemology of science, for the anti-foundationalism debate, and more generally, for modal logic, action, theory, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of mind. He shows how some recent analytic philosophy is now developing ideas concerning language, personal identity, and other topics that are found in Whitehead. Lucas concludes with recent problems in relativity theory and quantum mechanics, indicating how these bear on the philosophy of science and on the task of forging a comprehensive understanding of nature. He examines the debates concerning Einstein and Whitehead on relativity and analyzes the work of Bohm, Prigogine, and others who have found Whitehead's categories useful for their own success. Whitehead is shown to be a historical figure of great importance, not an idiosyncratic thinker, isolated along with a few enthusiastic followers from the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. With Russell, Whitehead participated in the same philosophical world that gave rise to analytic philosophy.

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State University of New York Press

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1438411383

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9781438411385

Anthropologists in Arms

The Ethics of Military Anthropology

By: George R. Lucas

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Anthropologists in Arms

The Ethics of Military Anthropology

By: George R. Lucas

Anthropologists in Arms looks at the moral and ethical debates surrounding the recent development of 'military anthropology'--particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lucas traces the troubled history of social scientists collaborating with national military, security, and intelligence organizations and shows how these complex and frequently misunderstood historical concerns contribute to the contemporary moral controversy. He gives special attention to the Human Terrain Systems project developed by the U.S. Army under the direction of General David Petraeus. Although this project has been criticized as unethical by academic anthropologists in the U.S. and the U.K., Lucas shows that the moral status of that program is much more ambiguous than these blanket criticisms would suggest. Anthropologists in Arms concludes with a call for a thorough review of HTS itself, and suggests alternative strategies for providing anthropological knowledge to military forces engaged in irregular warfare--knowledge that might, in turn, help military forces to ameliorate the suffering imposed on noncombatants, while respecting the privacy, security, and human rights of indigenous populations.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0759112134

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9780759112131

Law, Ethics and Emerging Military Technologies

Confronting Disruptive Innovation

By: George Lucas

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Law, Ethics and Emerging Military Technologies

Confronting Disruptive Innovation

By: George Lucas

This book addresses issues of legal and moral governance arising in the development, deployment, and eventual uses of emerging technologies in military operations. Proverbial wisdom has it that law and morality always lag behind technological innovation. Hence, the book aims to identify, enumerate, and constructively address the problems of adequate governance for the development, deployment, and eventual uses of military technologies that have been newly introduced into military operations or which will be available in the near future. Proposals for modifications in governance, the book argues, closely track the anxieties of many critics of these technologies to the extent that they will proliferate, prove destructive in unanticipated ways, and partially or wholly escape regulation under current treaties and regulatory regimes. In addition to such concerns in domestic and especially in international law, the book addresses ethical norms in the professions involved in the design and eventual use of specific technologies, principally involving the professional norms of practice in engineering and the military (as well as biomedical and health care practice), which impose moral obligations on their members to avoid reckless endangerment or criminal negligence in the course of their activities. Thus, in addition to exploring the application of existing legal regimes and moral norms, the book examines how these professions might develop or improve the voluntary constraints on forms of malfeasance that are enshrined in their histories and codes of best practices. This book should prove of great interest to students of ethics, military studies, philosophy of war and peace, law, and international relations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000806197

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9781000806199

The Realizations of the Future

An Inquiry into the Authority of Praxis

By: George Allan

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The Realizations of the Future

An Inquiry into the Authority of Praxis

By: George Allan

George Allan is Professor of Philosophy and senior academic officer at Dickinson College.

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State University of New York Press

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0791494489

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9780791494486

Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Moving Beyond Clausewitz

By: George R. Lucas, Jr.

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Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Moving Beyond Clausewitz

By: George R. Lucas, Jr.

This book examines the importance of "military ethics" in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy. Clausewitz’s original analysis of war relegated ethics to the side-lines in favor of political realism, interpreting the proper use of military power solely to further the political goals of the state, whatever those may be. This book demonstrates how such single-minded focus no longer suffices to secure the interest of states, for whom the nature of warfare has evolved to favor strategies that hold combatants themselves to the highest moral and professional standards in their conduct of hostilities. Waging war has thus been transformed in a manner that moves beyond Clausewitz’s original conception, rendering political success wholly dependent upon the cultivation and exercise of discerning moral judgment by strategists and combatants in the field. This book utilizes a number of perspectives and case studies to demonstrate how ethics now plays a central role in strategy in modern armed conflict. This book will be of much interest to students of just war, ethics, military strategy, and international relations.

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Routledge

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1351745174

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A Treatise on the Law Relative to Sales of Personal Property

By: George Long

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A Treatise on the Law Relative to Sales of Personal Property

By: George Long

Reprint of the original, first published in 1821.

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3368514334

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Financial Derivatives

Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics

By: Jamil Baz,George Chacko

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Financial Derivatives

Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics

By: Jamil Baz,George Chacko

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Cambridge University Press

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052181510X

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9780521815109

The Origins of Happiness

The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course

By: Andrew E. Clark,Sarah Flèche,Richard Layard,Nattavudh Powdthavee,George Ward

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The Origins of Happiness

The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course

By: Andrew E. Clark,Sarah Flèche,Richard Layard,Nattavudh Powdthavee,George Ward

A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life course What makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime. The Origins of Happiness offers a groundbreaking new vision for how we might become more healthy, happy, and whole.

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Princeton University Press

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0691196958

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9780691196954

Essentials of Sociology

By: George Ritzer

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Essentials of Sociology

By: George Ritzer

Show students the relevance of sociology to their lives. Adapted from Ritzer’s Introduction to Sociology, this text provides students with a rock-solid foundation in a shorter and more streamlined format.

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SAGE Publications

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1544388039

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9781544388038

Ordering of Time

Meditations on the History of Philosophy

By: Lucas George Lucas

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Ordering of Time

Meditations on the History of Philosophy

By: Lucas George Lucas

What is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy's history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said in its own right to constitute a unique and genuine source of philosophical wisdom or insight? George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to reflect broadly on a variety of answers to these questions, as posed by many of the major philosophical figures of the past century. Inviting a re-consideration of the work of scholars as diverse as Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Danto, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, Keith Lehrer and Jerome Schneewind, Lucas ranges widely over the history of philosophy itself in search of original, probing answers to these profound and perennial issues.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474478573

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Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor, Or, what Good's the Constitution when You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?

By: R. George Wright

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Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor, Or, what Good's the Constitution when You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?

By: R. George Wright

Wright (law, Cumberland School of Law, Samford U.) traces the basic legal and political implications of life for the desperately poor, arguing that the law fails to recognize the special circumstances of the severely deprived. He explores the Constitution as it is applied to the poor in our society, and advocates rejecting environmental determinism without holding the poor to unreasonable standards. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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NYU Press

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0814792944

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9780814792940

The Ecology of Seashores

By: George A. Knox

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The Ecology of Seashores

By: George A. Knox

The Ecology of Seashores explores the complex shore environment. It covers the ways in which representative species have adapted to life in a constantly changing environment in terms of their interactions, the control of community structure, and how energy and materials are cycled in different ecosystems. Written by an eminent marine biologist,

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1420042637

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9781420042634

Book's by George R. Lucas

Ethics and Cyber Warfare

Ethics and Cyber Warfare

Military Ethics

Military Ethics

The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

The Rehabilitation of Whitehead

Anthropologists in Arms

Anthropologists in Arms

Law, Ethics and Emerging Military Technologies

Law, Ethics and Emerging Military Technologies

The Realizations of the Future

The Realizations of the Future

Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century

A Treatise on the Law Relative to Sales of Personal Property

A Treatise on the Law Relative to Sales of Personal Property

Financial Derivatives

Financial Derivatives

The Origins of Happiness

The Origins of Happiness

Essentials of Sociology

Essentials of Sociology

Ordering of Time

Ordering of Time

Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor, Or, what Good's the Constitution when You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?

Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor, Or, what Good's the Constitution when You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?

The Ecology of Seashores

The Ecology of Seashores

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