Featured Articles
Advanced Robotics: Changing the Nature of War and Thresholds and Tolerance for Conflict - Implications for Research and Policy
Daniel Howlader and James Giordano
Introduction: From Fiction to Fact
The idea of robotic warriors is not new; depictions in popular media such as the Cylons from the Battlestar Galactica television shows, and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s iconic character from the Terminator series of films have kept discussions largely fictional, and not oriented toward the possible realties that might necessitate meaningful discourse on scientific, technological, ethical and policy issues. However, the construction and iterative designing of evermore-advanced robotics for both military and non-military purposes emphasizes the need and importance of such meaningful address to address the realistic potential and problems of current, and near future technology. More...
News Items & Editorials
Cyber Capacity without Cyber Security: A Case Study of Nigeria's National Policy for Information Technology (NPFIT)
Roseline Obada Moses-Òkè
Prior to the year 2001, the phenomenon of Internet criminal fraud was not globally associated with Nigeria. Since then, however, the country had acquired a world-wide notoriety in criminal activities, especially financial scams, facilitated through the use of the Internet. This is not to say that computer-related crimes were alien to the country. More...
Other Recent Articles
Admissions and Confessions
Clifton Perry
In ordinary discourse, admitting to something and confessing to the same thing would likely signify no significant, substantive difference, if any difference at all. That is, the report that one confessed to driving negligently would seem redundant with a report that one admitted to driving negligently. More...
Selected articles are available at the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature.
Book Reviews
Book Review: Laura Palazzani’s Gender in Philosophy and Law
Leslie P. Francis
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