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The Dunbar Lectures
Instituted by Jack F. & Wylene Dunbar in honor of Robert E. Bergmark,
beloved Millsaps teacher, colleague, and scholar
2010 DUNBAR LECTURE
NEW RULES FOR NEW WARS: MILITARY ETHICS & IRREGULAR WARFARE
George R. Lucas, Jr.
(U. S. Naval Academy)
February 22, 7:00 p.m.
Academic Complex Room 215
Campus map
Some have claimed that traditional moral and political concepts of 'just war' and of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) are simply inadequate to guide our intuitions about how to handle new kinds of 'irregular' or unconventional war. We need, critics say, 'new rules' for these new wars, as well as new conceptions of war-fighters and weapons, strategy and tactics, to handle these new armed conflicts of the 21st century. In this talk, Dr. Lucas will survey some of the most recent developments that fall under the heading of 'irregular warfare,' including the advent of 'cyber warfare,' the problem of 'ethical interoperability' among coalition forces, and the use of robots, academic scholars, and private contractors in combat zones, inviting audience discussion of whether these new forms of warfare do indeed challenge, or fall outside of, our existing legal and moral frameworks for analyzing war.
Dr. George R. Lucas Jr. is Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair in Ethics in the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) and Professor of Ethics and Public Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA). He has taught at Georgetown University, Emory University, Randolph-Macon College, and the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and served as Philosophy Department Chairman at the University of Santa Clara in California. He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has served three times (in 1986, 1990, and 2004) as director of National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes for College and University Faculty.
Email Dr. Steven G. Smith for more information.
Past Dunbar Lectures
1988
Robert E. Bergmark (Millsaps College), "Knowledge, Belief and Commitment" in four installments:
"What Can We Know?"
"What May We Reasonably Believe?"
"How Ought We Reasonably to Live?"
"What May We Reasonably Hope?"
1989
John E. Smith (Yale U.), "Recovering the Value Dimension in Education"
1990
Alison Jaggar (U. of Cincinnati), "How Can Ethics Be Feminist?"
1991
Hilary Putnam (Harvard U.), "Ultimate Questions"
1992
Richard T. DeGeorge (Kansas U.), "Modern Science, Environmental Ethics and the Anthropocentric Predicament"
1993
Ralph A. Smith (U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), "Once More: The Traditional Humanistic Ideal of Education"
1994
Charles Scott (Pennsylvania State U.), "What Paris is Doing to Us"
1995
Tom Regan (North Carolina State U.), "Patterns of Resistance: The Struggle for Freedom and Equality in America"
1996
Hilde Hein (College of the Holy Cross), "The Absent Mind: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic"
1998
Robert C. Solomon (U. of Texas-Austin), "Nietzsche and the Passionate Life"
2000
Martha Nussbaum (U. of Chicago), "Secret Sewers of Vice: Disgust, Bodies, and the Law"
2002
Robert Bernasconi (U. of Memphis), "When Race Was Everything: A Philosopher Looks at 19th Century Anthropology"
2004
Paul Churchland (U. of California-San Diego), "Impossible Colors: How Objective Brain Science Really Can Explain Subjective Human Experience"
2005
Eleonore Stump (St. Louis U.), "The Problem of Suffering: Samson and Self-Destroying Evil"
2006
Lucius Outlaw, Jr. (Vanderbilt U.), "Education, Academic Philosophy and the Strategic Production of Ignorance"
2007
James P. Sterba (U. of Notre Dame), "Why Everyone Should Agree that Economic Inequality is Unjustifiable"
2008
Michael Ruse (Florida State U.), "Can Evolution Explain Morality? Or Is It Dog Eat Dog All the Way Down?"
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