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philosophy of quantum mechanics

101. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 20
Richard Healey

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philosophy of religion

102. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 20
Richard Schacht

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political philosophy

103. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 20
John Kaag, Jamie Ashton

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This article employs Gerald Dworkin’s analysis in “Is More Choice Better Than Less” (1982) in order to understand the challenges and consequences of having enlarged the scope of military options to include precision guided munitions (PGM) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capabilities.1 Following Dworkin, we argue that having more strategic choices are not always better than less for a number of specific reasons. Unlike many philosophical discussions of the use of these military technologies, ours is an account of the prudential challenges and consequences of having widened military options, and the analysis self-consciously avoids making moral or legal claims concerning their use. It is simply an examination of the claim that widening the range of tactical options, to include these new weapon systems, is necessarily better. We will follow the outline of Dworkin’s argument in describing the current politico-military affairs. Our intent is to expose the practical costs associated with having tactical choices that include the use of these technologies. To be clear, the argument does not bear directly on the use of these technologies, but rather on the challenges associated with merely having the choice to use these weapon systems. Faced with the challenges associated with the option of having PGM or UAV capabilities, it may be judicious for countries to freely limit the military choices that they have at their disposal. This is not self-evident since the weapon technologies in question are not the sort that poses a clear and present danger to a large number of citizens, as was the case with nuclear weapons limited in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) of the 1970s or 1980s. Therefore a more detailed philosophical argument is warranted. A final caveat needs to be stated: The argument is to be taken as a whole since no single aspect of Dworkin’s analysis is definitive in regard to the question of whether more choice is indeed better than less. Each aspect does, however, contribute to a deeper understanding of what enlarging the set of tactical means for modern militaries.
104. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 20
Thom Brooks

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Martha Nussbaum’s “influential capabilities approach” offers us a powerful, universal standard of justice. The approach builds off of pioneering work by Amartya Sen in economic development. Much of the contemporary interest in the capabilities approach has focused upon how we might spell out a list of precisely which capabilities must be made universally available and protected, a list that Sen has not provided himself. Nussbaum’s list of capabilities is arguably the most successful attempt at defining these capabilities. In this paper, I will argue for a new problem with the approach that raises new questions about the capabilities approach more generally.

philosophy of mind

105. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 20
Pär Sundström

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106. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
Adam Kern, Oliver Wenner

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political philosophy

107. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
Gerald Gaus

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108. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
Samuel Freeman

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reply

109. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
P.M.S. Hacker

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epistemology

110. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
Fred Dretske

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ancient philosophy

111. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith

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112. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
A.W. Price

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lecture

113. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
Judith Jarvis Thomson

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aesthetics

114. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
David E. Cooper

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philosophy of film

115. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 19
Stephen Mulhall

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lecture

116. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 18 > Issue: 1
Jeremy Waldron

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philosophy of perception

117. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 18 > Issue: 1
John Campbell

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personal identity

118. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 18 > Issue: 1
Maximilian de Gaynesford

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119. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 18 > Issue: 1
Galen Strawson

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epistemology

120. The Harvard Review of Philosophy: Volume > 18 > Issue: 1
Duncan Pritchard

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