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Revenge Wars

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 344-353, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT In the wake of widescale deadly attacks, desire and support for military revenge are prevalent. Rather than dismissing it as due to ignorance, moral depravity or heat of the moment, I propose that support for military revenge is more charitably understood as support for a “retributive revenge war,” aimed at inflicting deserved harms on the ...
Uri Eran
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Noninvasively Imaging pH at the Surface of Implanted Orthopedic Devices in Live Rabbits Using X‐ray Excited Luminescence Chemical Imaging

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, Volume 14, Issue 25, September 26, 2025.
Imaging pH in a live rabbit at the surface of a sensor‐coated titanium plate using X‐ray excited luminescent chemical imaging (XELCI). A raster scanning X‐ray beam generates radioluminescence from a spot on the sensor, and the luminescence passes through the tissue and is collected at two wavelengths to determine local pH.
Unaiza Uzair   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

In defense of no one

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 676-695, September 2025.
Abstract According to the Wrong Restriction, we are liable to defensive harm only when we threaten to wrong others. While attractive on a first pass, we argue that plausible philosophical claims make the Wrong Restriction difficult to accept. In its place, we offer the Impermissibility Restriction, according to which one is liable to defensive harm ...
Joseph Bowen, James Goodrich
wiley   +1 more source

Starting and Stopping Wars

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 2, Page 96-106, June 2025.
ABSTRACT If a warring side may fight in pursuit of an aim up to some proportionality‐respecting limit, then an important question is whether that side is morally required to stop fighting when it reaches that limit, despite not yet having attained its aim.
Gerald Lang
wiley   +1 more source

State legitimacy and self-defence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In this paper I outline a theory of legitimacy that grounds the state’s right to rule on a natural duty not to harm others. I argue that by refusing to enter the state, anarchists expose those living next to them to the dangers of the state of nature ...
Renzo, Massimo
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Environmental Just Wars: Jus ad Bellum and the Natural Environment

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 620-638, May 2025.
ABSTRACT War is bad for the environment, yet the environmental ramifications of warfare have not been widely addressed by just war theorists and revisionist philosophers of war. The law and legal scholars have paid more attention to protecting nature during armed conflict.
Tamar Meisels
wiley   +1 more source

Jus Ad Bellum after 9/11: A State of the Art Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
An examination of the applicability of conventional and revisionist just war principles to the global war on ...
Rigstad, Mark
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A Project View of the Right to Parent

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 804-826, November 2024.
ABSTRACT The institution of the family and its importance have recently received considerable attention from political theorists. Leading views maintain that the institution's justification is grounded, at least in part, in the non‐instrumental value of the parent–child relationship itself.
Benjamin Lange
wiley   +1 more source

War and Moral Consistency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Provides an opinionated overview of some recent debates within the ethics of ...
Parry, Jonathan
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