2013 Conference: Military Virtues and Contemporary Challenges
This three day conference took place Sunday to Wednesday, October 13-16, 2013 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, under the auspices of Notre Dame’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values.
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ISME 2013 Program
Sunday 13 October
19:00-21:00
Opening Reception
Monday 14 October
8:00
ISME Registration & Refreshments
8:45
Welcome and overview of program (Don Howard & Richard Schoonhoven)
9:00
Keynote Address: Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame "Military Ethics: A Discipline in Crisis"
10:15
Break
10:30-12:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1: Challenges to Character
Session 2: History and Evolution of American Military Virtue
Session 3: Epistemic Considerations in Jus in Bello
12:00
Lunch - on your own
13:30-15:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 4: Defining Virtue
Session 5: Issues in Collective Responsibility
Session 6: Integrity and Fragmentation
15:00
Break
15:30-17:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7: New Challenges
Session 8: Virtues and New Technology
Session 9: Different Approaches to Virtue
17:00-18:00
Break
18:00-19:00
19:30-20:30
Keynote Address: Herb Lin, Chief Scientist, CSTB, National Research Council of the National Academies
Abstract: Ethical, legal, and societal considerations inevitably accompany scientific and technological research and development, but most of the thinking to date about how such considerations should be handled has been limited to R&D in a civilian context. How and to what extent, if any, do similar considerations apply in a military context, and especially when rapidly changing and/or readily available technologies are at issue? This talk may be relevant to policy makers, funders of military and other national security R&D, and the scientists and technologists engaged in such R&D.
Tuesday 15 October
9:00
Plenary Session: Steven H. Walker, Deputy Director, DARPA
10:15
Break
10:30-12:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 10: Professional Virtues
Session 11: Psychological and Social Issues
Session 12: The Application and Limits of Virtue Ethics
12:00
Lunch - on your own
13:30-15:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 13: Unusual Challenges
Session 14: Rethinking Realism
15:00
Break
15:30-16:00
ISME Business Meeting
16:00-17:30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 15: Requisite Virtues
Session 16: The Moral Experience of Soldiers
18:00
Dinner - on your own
Wednesday 16 October
Teaching Seminars for ROTC Cadets, Midshipmen, and Staff
8:00-9:15
Session 17: George Lucas on Inspiring Students to Pursue Intellectual Virtue
9:30-10:45
Session 18: Bill Rhodes on Introduction to Military Ethics
11:00-12:15
Session 19: Pauline Kaurin on Introduction to Just War
Sunday 13 October
19:00-21:00
Opening Reception
- Location: Fireside Terrace at The Morris Inn
Monday 14 October
8:00
ISME Registration & Refreshments
- Location: McKenna Hall Atrium
8:45
Welcome and overview of program (Don Howard & Richard Schoonhoven)
- Location: McKenna Hall Auditorium
9:00
Keynote Address: Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame "Military Ethics: A Discipline in Crisis"
- Location: McKenna Auditorium
- (This talk will be delivered by Reilly Center Director Don Howard)
10:15
Break
10:30-12:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1: Challenges to Character
- Chair: Monica Solomon
- Martin Cook on the Dangers of Integrity and Character
- (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)
- Deanna Messervey on Realistic Ethics Training (This talk has been moved to Session 2)
- Harry Jones on Why More Habituation (and even better arguments) Will Not Change the Way Soldiers Behave
- (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall
Session 2: History and Evolution of American Military Virtue
- Chair: TBA
- Craig Bruce Smith on Revolution, Morality, and the Continental Army
- Lorien Foote on Virtue and Honor in the American Civil War
- Deanna Messervey on Realistic Ethics Training
- Tom Gibbons on Moral/Ethical/Honor Implications from a Modern View
- (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)
- Location: McKenna Auditorium
Session 3: Epistemic Considerations in Jus in Bello
- Chair: TBA
- Peter J. Joyce IV on Bridging the Jus in Bello Epistemic Gap
- Ryan Jenkins on An in Bello Rule - Consequentialist Code or Morality
- Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall
12:00
Lunch - on your own
13:30-15:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 4: Defining Virtue
- Chair: Harry Jones
- Brent Kyle on Courage, Cowardice, and Maher’s Misstep
- Cornelia Vikan on Respect as a Military Virtue in Afghanistan (To read, click here.)
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall
Session 5: Issues in Collective Responsibility
- Chair: George Lucas
- Pauline Kaurin on Collective Liability and Non-Combatant Immunity
- Jovana Davidovic on Proportionality, Jus in Bello, and Collective Responsibility
- Location: McKenna Auditorium
Session 6: Integrity and Fragmentation
- Chair: Cliff Arnold
- Patrick Mileham on Good Soldiers and Good Men (To read, click here.)
- Paul Berghaus and Nathan Cartagena on the Problem of Fragmentation within the Army
- Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall
15:00
Break
15:30-17:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7: New Challenges
- Chair: Randy Dipert
- Shannon Ford on Cybersecurity
- Adam Henschke on Military Cyber-capacity and Emergence
- Location: McKenna Auditorium
Session 8: Virtues and New Technology
- Chair: Mike Zenk
- Emmanuel Goffi on Re-Thinking Courage in Light of Military Technology Improvement
- Bernhard Koch on the Debate About Autonomous Weapons Systems
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall
Session 9: Different Approaches to Virtue
- Chair: Beatriz Carrillo
- Mark Jensen on Epictetus vs. Aristotle
- Matthew Beard on A New Approach to Military Honour
- Joseph McInerney on The Role of Virtue in Contemporary Military Ethics
- (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)
- Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall
17:00-18:00
Break
18:00-19:00
- Annual ISME Banquet
- Location: The Morris Inn
19:30-20:30
Keynote Address: Herb Lin, Chief Scientist, CSTB, National Research Council of the National Academies
- "Understanding Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues Related to Emerging Technologies of Military Significance"
- Location: McKenna Auditorium
Abstract: Ethical, legal, and societal considerations inevitably accompany scientific and technological research and development, but most of the thinking to date about how such considerations should be handled has been limited to R&D in a civilian context. How and to what extent, if any, do similar considerations apply in a military context, and especially when rapidly changing and/or readily available technologies are at issue? This talk may be relevant to policy makers, funders of military and other national security R&D, and the scientists and technologists engaged in such R&D.
Tuesday 15 October
9:00
Plenary Session: Steven H. Walker, Deputy Director, DARPA
- "Driving Technological Surprise and Some of the Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications that Can Result"
- (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)
- Talk replaced by presentaton and discussion of Euro ISME
10:15
Break
10:30-12:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 10: Professional Virtues
- Chair: Manuela Fernandez
- Danny Cazier on Professional Expertise
- Ian Fishback on Virtue and the Military Profession
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall
- (Entire panel cancelled due to government shutdown)
Session 11: Psychological and Social Issues
- Chair: Jay Malone
- Nolen Gertz on Rethinking Suffering: PTSD, Moral Injury, and Military Ethics
- Christine van Burken and Bart van Bezooijen on Psychological and Social Aspects of Moral Decision Making in Networked Military Operations
- Location: McKenna Auditorium
Session 12: The Application and Limits of Virtue Ethics
- Chair: Maura Ryan
- P.H. de Vries on After Military Virtue
- Jordy Rochelau on Just War Principles Over Virtue in Jus ad Bellum Decision-Making
- Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall
12:00
Lunch - on your own
13:30-15:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 13: Unusual Challenges
- Chair: Yvonne Pichette
- Ibanga Ikpe on Military Ethics and the Dilemma of Irregular Combatants
- George Lucas on Privacy, Cyber Security, and Self-Defense in the Aftermath of Edward Snowden
- Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall
Session 14: Rethinking Realism
- Chair: Pauline Kaurin
- Kevin Schieman on Political Realism and the Military Professional
- Randy Dipert on Sherman and Rescuing Moderate Military Realism
- Location: McKenna Auditorium
15:00
Break
15:30-16:00
ISME Business Meeting
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall
16:00-17:30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 15: Requisite Virtues
- Chair: Melinda Gormley
- Cheryl Abbate on Uprooting the Rape Culture of the Armed Forces
- Crystal Allen on the Virtues of Due Care
- Location: McKenna Auditorium
Session 16: The Moral Experience of Soldiers
- Chair: Kevin Schieman
- Phillip Nelson on A Political Phenomenology of Warfare Ethics
- Michael Robillard on the Moral Exploitation of Soldiers
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall
18:00
Dinner - on your own
Wednesday 16 October
Teaching Seminars for ROTC Cadets, Midshipmen, and Staff
8:00-9:15
Session 17: George Lucas on Inspiring Students to Pursue Intellectual Virtue
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall
9:30-10:45
Session 18: Bill Rhodes on Introduction to Military Ethics
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall
11:00-12:15
Session 19: Pauline Kaurin on Introduction to Just War
- Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall