Monographs by Harry D Gould
Journal Articles by Harry D Gould
International Studies Review, 2016
International Theory, Jan 1, 2011
Review of International Studies, Jan 1, 2009
Page 1. International criminal bodies HARRY D. GOULD* Abstract. One of the insights of Constructi... more Page 1. International criminal bodies HARRY D. GOULD* Abstract. One of the insights of Constructivism is that our world is, in part, made by what we say about it. We make things what they are by saying what they are. One way ...
International Legal Theory, Jan 1, 1999
International Legal Theory, Jan 1, 2000
Gendered credibility goes beyond the sex of panelists. In this article, I join contributors acros... more Gendered credibility goes beyond the sex of panelists. In this article, I join contributors across academic institutions to discuss a tracking system for more diverse and inclusive panel representation.
Part of "Responding to #AllMalePanels: A Collage"
Edited Books by Harry D Gould
Edited Book Chapters by Harry D Gould
Reflexivity and International Relations: Positionality, Critique, and Practice, 2015
From Aristotle onward, we have been taught to think of prudence as an attribute either of the cha... more From Aristotle onward, we have been taught to think of prudence as an attribute either of the character or of the mind, but consistently as a virtue of the intellect (aretai dianoetikai). 1 Although in all understandings it is concerned with deliberate human action and practice, the tradition has always insisted that it is not just a skill. It had (at least until Hobbes) been understood to be something of a higher order than a (mere) skill (Hobbes 1996 [1651], I.V.VII-IX, I.VIII.IV-V, IV.XL.VI.II). I find the proposition that prudence is a virtue that can be possessed to be unsatisfactory; I propose rather that prudence is more fruitfully conceptualized as a practice, a much broader notion. To be prudent, or to act prudently is best captured not in Aristotelian or Stoic psychology, but as a practice informed by Wittgenstein's notion of "knowing how to go on". This points toward an understanding of prudence as a reflexive, rule-governed practice, as a "form of life" that involves thinking both about how we act and how we ought to act. As I will develop later, this is rather at odds with the predominant understanding of practice in the field, which by stripping deliberation from its understanding of practice, by making the relevant forms of knowledge wholly inarticulable and tacit, and by treating rules as enacted but never considered, strips all reflexivity from practice. To get at the traditional understandings of prudence from which I begin, it will be useful to start with the respective treatments of the composition of prudence of several of the authors/traditions that have provided our core vocabulary and semantics of prudence. Aristotle gave us a list of five component sub-virtues (to which he subsequently added two more), the Stoics six, Cicero three faculties, Aquinas eight, and Kant three (see Table 13.1) Surveying these sets of attributes points immediately to a conception of prudence as cognitive in character; in most of these treatments, the attributes identified are either mental operations or cognitive capacities. The very word "phronesis" derives from the verb "phroneo", to think. To use Kantian language, the components of prudence in these renderings are faculties
The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory, 2018
Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations, 2020
The Future of Just War: New Critical Essays, 2014
Consider a scenario almost too commonplace to think of as hypothetical: military planners must de... more Consider a scenario almost too commonplace to think of as hypothetical: military planners must decide whether to attack a site which contributes significantly to their enemy's war efforts-a site which is located amidst noncombatants. The planners must decide whether to attack the site despite foreseeing that noncombatants will unavoidably be killed as a direct result of that attack. Destroying the enemy facility will contribute significantly ending the war, but it will do so only at the cost of these noncombatant's lives. Perhaps the oldest line of reasoning when confronting such situations relies simply upon simple military-instrumental calculation: if the destruction of the site will contribute to the achievement of victory, then other consequences need not be taken into consideration. In this tradition, success is the only relevant metric; this sort of reasoning is the moral sibling of the legal dictum "silent enim leges inter arma". 1 Just War theory has turned to Catholic moral theology for a test of such a proposed act's permissibility; the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) rests upon a presumed distinction between the intended effects of an act and the foreseen but unintended effects of that same act. 2 It is, strictly speaking, a deontological approach. 3
Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance, 2014
Ethics, Authority, and War, 2009
Pragmatism in International Relations, Jan 1, 2009
Setting out to compare terms such as constructivism, as used in the field of International Relatio... more Setting out to compare terms such as constructivism, as used in the field of International Relations (IR), and pragmatism presents a number of difficulties: the terms mean different things to different scholars, including those identifying themselves by either label. For our ...
Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World, Jan 1, 2003
International Relations in a Constructed World, …, Jan 1, 1998
... Constructivism and the Agent-Structure Debate It should by now be plain what the constructivi... more ... Constructivism and the Agent-Structure Debate It should by now be plain what the constructivist stance on issues of agency and structure is, but to clarify at the outset just how this stance relates to the debate over agency and structure in IR, I make the following claims: Page 99. ...
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