Books
A QUAKER APPROACH TO RESEARCH: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE AND COMMUNAL DISCERNMENT, Quaker Institute for the Future, 2014, available as pdf at: https://www.quakerbooks.org/book/quaker-approach-research .
A Quaker Approach to Research: Collaborative Practice and Communal Discernment grows out of a decade of experiments employing Quaker processes of communal discernment in research in the context of public policy, academic study, and community-based research. The guiding hypothesis has been that the methods developed by Quakers for spirit-led governance could be adapted for spirit-led research. The aim of this book is to describe 1) the vision, theory, and traditions of practice inspiring a Quaker approach to research; 2) experiments with specific methods used; 3) initial results and findings; and 4) the key challenges and puzzles that remain. It further aims to explore the relevance of Quaker process when the participants are not Quaker or even religious.
THE WAYS OF PEACE: A PHILOSOPHY OF PEACE AS ACTION, Paulist Press, 1986 — available as pdf at: 00fullversionwaysofpeaceword
Why does the concept of peace so often get defined in a logically negative way, in terms of what it is not – not war, violence, conflict . . . ? And why can we say in English that nations are warring in the Middle East but cannot say that “Nations are peaceing in Scandanavia”? This book provides a systematic account of how the meaning of peace has been obscured in our dominant culture — in something like the way that Heidegger argued that the meaning of Being has been obscured. And it provides a detailed account of how practices of Quaker communal discernment, Harvard style “principled negotiation” and Gandhian satyagraha can provide paradigms for developing an alternative culture in which peace is understood in rich and practical terms as an activity we can perform to create an alternative world of peace.
THE WILL AT THE CROSSROADS: A RECONSTRUCTION OF KANT’S MORAL THEORY, University Press of America, 1984
Some Recent Articles
“Gandhi’s Dialogical Truth Force: Applying Satyagraha Models of Practical Rational Inquiry to Ecological Change, Warfare, and the Technological Singularity”, Proceedings of Conference on Gandhi and the Contemporary World, New Delhi University, Feb. 24-25, 2016 — available at: Gandhi’s Dialogical Truth Force revised
“Gandhi’s Innovation in Ethics:
Satyagraha as a Method of Rational Proof and Demonstration”, Proceedings of Conference of Gandhirama GITAM University, Vishakhapatnam, India, January 2016 — available at: Gandhi’s Innovation Gray Cox
“Reframing Ethical Theory, Pedagogy, and Legislation to Bias Open Source AGI Towards Friendliness and Wisdom”, in the JOURNAL OF EVOLUTION AND TECHNOLOGY, November, 2015 available at: http://jetpress.org/v25.2/cox.htm
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