NE203 Overview — Dr. Chris Eberle
A Stockdale Center podcast with Dr. Chris Eberle about NE203, the ethics course at the United States Naval Academy.
Public lectures, conferences, and interviews
Lectures & Media
This page collects public lectures, conference presentations, interviews, podcasts, and video resources on ethics of war, religion and politics, moral formation, Christian faith, and military leadership.
Podcasts
Public Videos
Naval Academy Discussion on Politics, Liberalism, and Religion
A public conversation hosted by the United States Naval Academy Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership on politics, liberalism, religion, and the challenges facing liberal democracy.
Religion and PoliticsLiberal DemocracyPublic ReasonMcCain Conference
Moral Formation and Military Officership
A lecture on the moral formation of military officers, the education of judgment, and the role of the just war tradition in shaping the moral life of citizens, soldiers, and statesmen.
Ethics of WarMilitary EthicsMoral FormationJust War Tradition
Just Cause and Cyber War
A presentation on the ethics of military cyber operations, just cause, and the application of the just war tradition to warfare in a new domain.
Cyber WarJust CauseMilitary EthicsJust War Theory
2022 McDonald Centre Annual Conference: Featured Speakers Session 2
A public conference video supplied for the lecture archive. The visible title follows the video metadata; the description can be further refined if a more exact talk title or session role should be displayed.
Public LectureChristian EthicsReligion and PoliticsConference Video
Recent and Selected Invited Papers
- “Love and Hate in War: Monstrous Evil in Lewis and Tolkien.” War, Fellowship, and Survival in the Lives and Works of C.S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits, June 11-13, 2026.
- “Just War, Proper Emotion, and Union With God: C. S. Lewis on the Morality of War.” Conference on C. S. Lewis, Houston Baptist University, Fall 2025.
- “Religious Conviction in the Profession of Arms.” Conference on Religion, Freedom, Equality, Magdalen College, Oxford University, June 3, 2024.
- “Religion and Liberalism.” McCain Conference, United States Naval Academy, 2024.
- “Christian Faith and the Profession of Arms.” Plenary Lecture, The Moral Argument for God’s Existence, Houston Baptist University, March 2, 2023.
- “The Continuing Quest for the Grail.” Continuing the Conversation: Early Arguments and Contemporary Thoughts, Emory University, February 22, 2023.
- “Christian Faith in the Profession of Arms.” Faithful to the Call: Renewing Theological Ethics from the Ground Up, Christ Church, Oxford University, May 11, 2022.
- “Moral Formation at the US Naval Academy.” Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting on Philosophy in the Public Square, January 23-25, 2020.
- “Love and Faith at War: Reflections on a Platoon Commander in Fallujah.” Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting on Philosophy in the Public Square, January 23-25, 2020.
- “Love and Faith at War: Reflections on a Platoon Commander in Fallujah.” Conference on Western-Chinese Ethics of War and Peace, University of Virginia, November 30-December 1, 2019.
- “Supreme Emergency, Rawls, and Restraint.” Invited Symposium on 25 Years of Rawls’ Political Liberalism, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, January 9, 2019.
- “Religion and Right Intention.” Conference on Western-Chinese Ethics of War and Peace, University of Virginia, November 30-December 1, 2018.
- “Irreconcilable Disagreement: Supreme Emergency, Religion, and Restraint.” Conference on Public Life and Religious Diversity, Oxford University, September 2017.
- “Religion, Public Reason, and War.” Public Reason and Disagreement, University of Turin, Centro Einaudi, Turin, Italy, June 20, 2014.
- “Religion and Insularity: Brian Leiter on Religious Accommodation.” Is Religion an Outdated Constitutional Concept? University of San Diego Law School, February 28-March 1, 2014.
- “Comments on Nicholas Wolterstorff’s The Mighty and the Almighty.” Institute for Church and State, University of Notre Dame, March 23, 2014.
- “Moral Formation and Military Officership.” War and Peace as Liberal Arts, Westmont College, February 21-23, 2013.
- “Religion, Politics, and War.” Pluralism, Conflict and Co-Existence: Religion, Politics and Society in Western Europe from the Confessional Age to the Present, Yale University, September 22-24, 2011.
- “Just Cause and Cyber War.” 2011 McCain Conference: Warfare in a New Domain: The Ethics of Military Cyber Operations, United States Naval Academy, April 26-27, 2011.
Selected Lecture Topics
- Christian faith and the profession of arms
- Religion, liberalism, and public reason
- Moral formation at the United States Naval Academy
- Just cause and cyber war
- C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, proper emotion, and the morality of war