Completed papers, presentation manuscripts, and lecture texts available in PDF form. These materials are posted for scholarly reference and should be cited or quoted only with appropriate attribution.
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Unpublished paper
A paper on the Just War Tradition, Harry Stout, the American Civil War, just cause, proportionality, and the problem of justificatory escalation.
Unpublished paper
A study of the right intention requirement in the Just War Tradition, with particular attention to proper motivation, emotion, and the moral formation of those who wage war.
Unpublished paper
A paper examining whether soldiers in the United States military are morally obliged to comply with legal orders to fight even in wars they reasonably judge to be unjust.
Unpublished chapter/paper
A sustained reflection on legitimate authority, the virtue of obedience, and the tension between virtuous obedience and indiscriminate obedience in the profession of arms.
Unpublished paper
An account of the virtue of obedience and its implications for soldiers in liberal democracies, arguing that genuinely obedient soldiers will sometimes be disposed to disobey the very orders that should be disobeyed.
Lecture manuscript
A lecture manuscript on how the morality of war and peace is taught at the United States Naval Academy, with particular attention to NE203, moral formation, and the Just War Tradition.
Unpublished paper
A paper on whether and how religious reasons may properly guide military officers in a liberal democracy when they exercise command authority within legal, moral, and institutional constraints.
Presentation manuscript
A presentation manuscript on liberal democracy, religious argument in public life, religious restraint, and the place of faith-based reasoning in political and military judgment.
Unpublished paper
A paper on hatred, enemy-love, monstrous evil, and the moral psychology of war in C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.