Yes - he is still at U Colorado Boulder -- most of my knowledge of him was re. the flareup about his article & the debate about whether the school could/should fire him, tenure or no tenure. Fun! It will be cool to look through this piece.
Just war theory has a reasonably respectable pedigree, despite the fact that hardcore pacifists (like John Dear and Daniel Berrigan, both Jesuits) see it as excuse-making. Since it's part of Catholic social thought and I'm at a Jesuit university, I hear a fair amount of debate about its merits and defects.
Here's the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on just war theory (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/#2).
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Just war theory has a reasonably respectable pedigree, despite the fact that hardcore pacifists (like John Dear and Daniel Berrigan, both Jesuits) see it as excuse-making. Since it's part of Catholic social thought and I'm at a Jesuit university, I hear a fair amount of debate about its merits and defects.
Here's the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on just war theory (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/#2).