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  1. Gun Bans, Risk, and Self-Defense.Deane-Peter Baker - 2014 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 28 (2):235-249.
    While there are no serious arguments in favor of there being no state control whatsoever over the private ownership and employment of firearms, there are significant arguments on the other extreme of the ‘gun control debate’ which contend for bans on the private ownership of firearms or some subset thereof. In this paper I argue that gun ban proponents like Jeff McMahan and Nicholas Dixon confuse the risk or likelihood of being confronted by an attacker intent on serious or lethal (...)
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    Rebellion and African Ethics.Deane-Peter Baker - 2016 - Journal of Military Ethics 15 (4):288-298.
    In this paper I draw on Thaddeus Metz’s pioneering work in African ethics, and particularly his account of the concept described by the terms ubuntu, botho, hunhu or utu, to sketch an African normative understanding of the act of rebellion against the authority of the state. Most commonly articulated in the phrase “a person is a person through other persons”, ubuntu is interpreted by Metz as a unique communitarian moral principle which can be described in its essence as the claim (...)
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    The Principled Case for Employing Private Military and Security Companies in Interventions for Human Rights Purposes.Deane-Peter Baker & James Pattison - 2011 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 29 (1):1-18.
    The possibility of using private military and security companies to bolster the capacity to undertake intervention for human rights purposes has been increasingly debated. The focus of such discussions has, however, largely been on practical issues and the contingent problems posed by private force. By contrast, this article considers the principled case for privatising humanitarian intervention. It focuses on two central issues. First, does outsourcing humanitarian intervention to private military and security companies pose some fundamental, deeper problems in this context, (...)
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    (1 other version)Defending the common life: National-defence after Rodin.Deane-Peter Baker - 2006 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (3):259–275.
    abstract David Rodin has recently put forward a compelling but disturbing argument to the effect that the traditional justification in Just War Theory of a state's right to self‐defence (what Rodin calls national‐defence), which is derived from the legitimate case of personal self‐defence, fails. He concludes that the only way to justify forceful responses to aggression against states by other states or non‐state groups is by viewing the right to do so as falling under a form of law‐enforcement, which in (...)
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    Alvin Plantinga.Deane-Peter Baker (ed.) - 2007 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Few thinkers have had as much impact on contemporary philosophy as has Alvin Plantinga. The work of this quintessential analytic philosopher has in many respects set the tone for the debate in the fields of modal metaphysics and epistemology and he is arguably the most important philosopher of religion of our time. In this volume, a distinguished team of today's leading philosophers address the central aspects of Plantinga's philosophy - his views on natural theology; his responses to the problem of (...)
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    Making good better: A proposal for teaching ethics at the service academies.Deane-Peter Baker - 2012 - Journal of Military Ethics 11 (3):208-222.
    Abstract This paper addresses the teaching of mandatory ethics courses in a military context, with particular reference to the Service Academies of the United States Armed Forces. In seeking to optimize the core ethics course's potential to develop Midshipmen and Cadets' moral reasoning skills I suggest a model that employs case-based scenarios, woven together into a metanarrative, in place of the traditional historical case study and in a manner that gives students deliberate, guided practice in ethical decision-making. The described model (...)
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    Private Military and Security Companies: Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations.Andrew Alexandra, Deane-Peter Baker & Marina Caparini (eds.) - 2008 - Routledge.
    Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to the functioning and identity of the modern state, and to international order, these developments clearly are of great practical and conceptual interest. This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of PMSCs: what they are, why they have (...)
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    Epistemic Uncertainty and Excusable Wars.Deane-Peter Baker - 2015 - Philosophical Forum 46 (1):55-69.
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    Editorial: New Developments at the SAJP.Deane-Peter Baker, Simon Beck & David Spurrett - 2006 - South African Journal of Philosophy 25 (2):89-90.
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    Abortion and Civil Disobedience.Deane-Peter Baker - 2015 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 89 (1):139-151.
    Many believe strongly that states, even democratic states, commit serious moral harm by adopting policies that allow elective abortions. What avenues are available to citizens of those states who oppose such policies? In this paper I contest Nicholas Dixon’s claim that there is only a very limited scope for acts of civil disobedience in response to pro-abortion state policy. While acknowledging that a state policy of not allowing elective abortions imposes significant burdens on pregnant women, I contend that a consistent (...)
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    Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War – By Michael L. Gross.Deane-Peter Baker - 2008 - Developing World Bioethics 10 (2):113-113.
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  12. Connecting research, education and training.Deane-Peter Baker - 2017 - In Thomas R. Frame & Albert Palazzo (eds.), Ethics under fire: challenges for the Australian Army. Sydney, New South Wales: University of New South Wales Press.
     
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    Condemned to Meaning.Deane-Peter Baker - 2003 - Theoria 50 (102):139-146.
    Book review of three book about philosopher Charles Taylor. "Charles Taylor", by Ruth Abbey. Teddington, UK: Acumen, 2000. ISBN: 0691057141. "Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity", by Nicholas H. Smith. Cambridge: Polity, 2002. ISBN: 0742521273. "Charles Taylor: Thinking and Living Deep Diversity", by Mark Redhead. Lanham and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. ISBN: 0745645767. There can be no doubt that Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has made a major contribution to the development of contemporary philosophy and is one of the most (...)
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  14. Divine foreknowledge – so what?Deane-Peter Baker - 2005 - Heythrop Journal 46 (1):60–65.
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    Don't Kick the Habit.Deane-Peter Baker - 2003 - Theoria 50 (101):68-93.
    Presents a Taylorian critique of the political philosophy in Richard Rorty's book 'Achieving Our Country.' Distinction between the old-guard reformist Left and the new orthodoxy of cultural Leftism; Analysis of pertinent topics and relevant issues; Implications on studies of social and political theory.
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    ‘Dreams of Battle’: A Small Window into the Evolution of us Army Tactical Ethics, 1921–2009.Deane-Peter Baker - 2014 - Journal of Military Ethics 13 (4):302-319.
    E. D. Swinton's The Defence of Duffer's Drift: A Lesson in the Fundamentals of Small Unit Tactics, originally published in 1904, uses the device of a series of recurring but progressive nightmares to teach a set of tactical lessons that Swinton derived from his service in the Second Anglo-Boer War. Now a minor classic, The Defence of Duffer's Drift has had an enduring and international impact. The book's popularity has also led to the publication of several narratives inspired by the (...)
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    Ethics at war: how should military personnel make ethical decisions?Deane-Peter Baker - 2024 - New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Edited by Rufus Black, Roger G. Herbert & Iain King.
    This book debates competing approaches to ethical decision-making for members of the armed forces of liberal-democratic states. In this volume, four prominent thinkers propose and debate competing approaches to ethical decision-making for military personnel. Deane-Peter Baker presents and expounds the 'Ethical Triangulation' model, an ethical decision-making method he has employed through much of his career as an applied military ethicist. Rufus Black advocates for a natural law-based approach, one which has heavily influenced the framework formally adopted by the Australian Defence (...)
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    Explorations in Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion.Deane-Peter Baker & Patrick Maxwell (eds.) - 2003 - Rodopi.
    This book is an exploration of the content and dimensions of contemporary Continental philosophy of religion. It is also a showcase of the work of some of the philosophers who are, by their scholarship, filling out the meaning of the term Continental philosophy of religion.
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  19. Introduction: Alvin Plantinga, God's philosopher.Deane-Peter Baker - 2007 - In Alvin Plantinga. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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    Key concepts in military ethics.Deane-Peter Baker (ed.) - 2015 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
    Can war be morally justified? What is the philosophy behind armed conflict? How do you conduct an ethical war? And what guides military action as the nature of conflict changes over time? Based on a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) designed for both military personnel and non-specialists across the globe, Key Concepts in Military Ethics is structured as a series of 'mini-chapters' that cover a huge range of topics and issues: moral dilemmas, military and civilian interactions, freedom of the press, (...)
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    Morality and ethics at war: bridging the gaps between the soldier and the state.Deane-Peter Baker - 2020 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Edited by Susan Coyle.
    In Morality and Ethics of War, which includes a foreword by Major General Susan Coyle, ethicist Deane-Peter Baker goes beyond existing treatments of military ethics to address a fundamental problem: the yawning gap that exists between the diverse moral frameworks defining personal identity in a multicultural society on the one hand, and the professional military ethic on the other. Baker argues that overcoming this chasm is essential to minimising the ethical risks that can lead to operational and strategic failure for (...)
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    Special operations remote advise and assist: an ethics assessment.Deane-Peter Baker - 2019 - Ethics and Information Technology 21 (1):1-10.
    United States Army Special Forces who deployed to Iraq in mid-2014, and who were seeking to help Iraqi forces to combat Islamic State faced a considerable challenge: how could a force of fewer than 50 operators provide guidance and support to their Iraqi allies while also keeping in line with Washington’s policy of seeking to avoid any possibility of combat casualties among deployed U.S. Special Forces? Their solution to this dilemma came to be dubbed ‘Remote Advise and Assist’. By cobbling (...)
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    Sources of the Self as an Argument for Theism.Deane-Peter Baker - 2009 - Philosophical Papers 38 (3):401-416.
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    The ethics of special ops: raids, recoveries, reconnaissance and rebels.Deane-Peter Baker - 2023 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Roger G. Herbert & David Whetham.
    This book addresses one largely overlooked trend in the field of military ethics, the emergence of special operations as a prominent instrument of statecraft. The authors' analysis calls attention to qualities inherent in special operations that challenge the moral framework which informs conventional military operations.
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  25. University of Kwazulu-Natal.Deane-Peter Baker - unknown
    Do not write more than 15 lines for any answer. (5 marks each = 20 marks for this section) 1. Descartes argues that the concept of a vacuum or empty space is incoherent. Briefly explain the reasons he offers for this.
     
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  26. (1 other version)Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology: What’s the Question? [REVIEW]Deane-Peter Baker - 2004 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 57 (2):77-103.
    Alvin Plantingas Warranted Christian Belief is without questionone of the central texts of the Reformed epistemology movement. Critiques of Plantingas defence have been both multiple and varied. As varied as these responses are, however, it is my contention that many of them amount to the same thing. It is the purpose of this paper to offer an overview of the main lines of attack that have been directed as Plantingas project, and thereafter to show how many, if not most, of (...)
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    An asterisk denotes a publication by a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The Editors welcome suggestions for reviews. Altman, Matthew C. A Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Boulder: Westview Press, 2008. Pp. xviii+ 232. Paper $30.00, ISBN: 978-0-8133-4383-6. [REVIEW]Deane-Peter Baker, Francisco J. Benzoni, Olivier Boulnois, David B. Burrell, Peter M. Candler, Conor Cunningham, John W. Carlson, Austin Dacey, N. Y. Amherst & Lawrence Dewan - 2008 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (2).
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