TOPIC: Legal and Ethical Precepts Guiding Research and Use of Emergin g Military Technologies
\n\nSPEAKER: Georg e Lucas\, Naval Postgraduate School
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< FONT FACE="Arial">From the emergence and increasing use of unmanned or “ remotely-piloted” vehicles to the advent of cyber war and conflict\, the development of new and exotic military technologies has provoked fierce a nd divisive public debate regarding the ethical challenges posed by such t echnologies. The language of morality and ethics has served us poorly in t his context\, and presently it serves to further confuse\, rather than to clarify or enlighten us on how best to cope with the continuing developmen t and deployment of seemingly-exotic new military technologies. There are numerous reasons that justify this concern. Initial outlines of a framewor k for identifying and fostering productive debate over the acceptable ethi cal boundaries regarding novel technologies will be proposed. \;
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\n\nGeorge R Lucas\, Jr.
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Professor of Philosophy &\; Public Policy\, Glo bal Public Policy Academic Group\, Naval Postgraduate School
\n\nDistinguished Cha ir in Ethics\, Stockdale Center\, U.S. Naval Academy
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A Summa cum Laude graduate i n Physics from the College of William and Mary\, Professor Lucas received a Sigma Xi Research Award for his work in intermediate energy particle phy sics. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. He has taught at Georgetown University\, Emory University\, Randolph-Macon C ollege\, the Catholic University of Louvain\, Belgium\, and served as Phil osophy Department Chairman at the University of Santa Clara in California. He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and th e American Council of Learned Societies\, and has served three times as di rector of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes for College and University Faculty.
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Dr. Lucas is the author of five books\, more than forty journal articles\, translations\, and book reviews\, and has also e dited eight book-length collections of articles in philosophy and ethics. Among these titles are Anthropologists in Arms: the Ethics of Military Ant hropology (AltaMira Press\, 2009) and Perspectives on Humanitarian Militar y Intervention (University of California Press\, 2001). He is also co-edit or (with Capt. Rick Rubel\, U.S. Navy\, retired) of the textbook\, Ethics and the Military Profession: the Moral Foundations of Leadership\, and a c ompanion volume\, Case Studies in Military Ethics\, both published by Pear son Education (New York\, 2004). These texts are used in core courses devo ted to ethical leadership at the United States Naval Academy\, the United States Air Force Academy\, and at Naval ROTC units at over 57 colleges and universities throughout the nation.
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