{"id":30,"date":"2023-01-27T22:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T22:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:19:29","slug":"research-areas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/research-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chris&#8217; currently working on his dissertation, and has some distinct areas of research that he is interested in pursuing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Military Ethics<\/strong>:<br><em>Motivation: <\/em>How do members of an armed force keep hope whilst in the &#8216;dark places&#8217;. What keeps a person pressing forward in the attack when facing incredible odds.<br><em>Discipline<\/em>: How do institutions &#8216;keep it all together&#8217; to ensure that they can meet their obligations as set out in a theory of <em>ius in bello?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Just War Theory:<\/strong><br>Where does obligation to a member of a fighting force enter into the consideration of a theory of just war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Courses<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris has  taught PHIL 235: War, Violence, Terrorism and Ethics.  A second year philosophy course that examined the philosophy of war, the standard account of Just War Theory, and special topics in war and ethics (responsibility, moral injury, killer robots, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do we fight?<br>An examination of Unlimited Liability<br>Discipline:<br>On Medals &#8211; A Study in hope and resolve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris&#8217; currently working on his dissertation, and has some distinct areas of research that he is interested in pursuing: Military<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/research-areas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research Areas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismaier.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}