J Peter Burge

Biographic Data

ID364699
NAMEJ Peter Burge
GIVEN NAMESJ Peter
FAMILY NAMEBurge
SIGNATUREBURGE J P
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
ORCID0000-0001-9539-6922
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS41
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX5

  • A Nation’s Right to Exist

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of the Society of…2024

    In justifying Russian aggression against Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin asserts that Ukraine is neither a distinct nation nor a viable state. In response, this essay will establish a Christian account of Ukraine’s right to self-defense not only via just war criteria but also in relation to its purpose theologically as a nation-state. This essay, after reviewing Christian ethical positions that either reject or embrace the nation-state, draws o…

  • Lacanian Biopolitics of Covid-19

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, J Peter BurgessARTICLEInternational Studies Quarterly2023Cited by: 3References: 46

    A public debate has raged in Europe and the Americas for the last year, almost as predictable in its substance as in its form: Has the suppression of individual liberties, in the form of lockdowns, curfews, imposed mask-wearing, and vaccination justified by and indeed legitimated by the sanitary crisis? On virtually all levels of public debate, positions have been formulated on the right (or responsibility) of public authorities to require citize…

  • Democracy as Theological Dilemma for Historically Orthodox Nations

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of Church and State2022

    Democracy as Theological Dilemma for Historically Orthodox Nations John P Burgess John P Burgess [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, csaa102, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csaa102 Published: 21 December 2020

  • A Protestant Response to “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World”

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of World Christianity2021

    This article sets forth a Protestant response to three key aspects of the Holy and Great Council’s “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World” and related statements: (1) the Council’s understanding of ecumenical relations, (2) its vision of God’s transfiguration of all reality, and (3) the relation between theological reflection and church practice. The article concludes that Protestants will learn from the Council’s …

  • Blessing as the Ground of Morality

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of the Society of…2021

    This essay argues that Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), one of Russia’s most creative religious philosophers, makes an important contribution to Christian social ethics by positing “blessing” as a central moral act. Drawing on Orthodox liturgical practices of blessing, Florensky redescribes reality; it is filled with God’s energies. Especially in letters from the gulag, after his arrest in 1933 for “counter-revolutionary” activity, Florensky calls fo…

  • TheRealat the Origin of Sovereignty

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, J Peter BurgessARTICLEPolitical Psychology2017Cited by: 9References: 11

    This article revisits the concept of sovereignty in political theory by applying tools adapted from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. It critically reviews the premises of political subjects assumed by sovereignty and formulates a widened concept of sovereignty based on a general understanding of the “self,” “self‐relation,” and “identity” as the fundamental components of sovereignty. With this concept in hand, the article then focuses on the conce…

  • Kripke on Functionalism

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLECritica2016

    Saul Kripke’s still largely unpublished views on functionalism in the philosophy of mind are expounded on the basis of a transcript of a 1984 lecture of his on the topic, and some unresolved questions identified

  • Cultures of Governance and Peace

    J Peter Burge, J Peter Burgess et al.BOOKCultures of Governance and Peace2016

    This volume brings together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the European Union. Two very different but connected epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, which have been divided by distance, colonialism and culture; yet have recently been brought closer together by ideas and practices of what is known as liberal peace, neoliberal state and development projects. The differe…

  • The Theological Politics of the Icon of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEJournal of Church and State2016

    Journal Article The Theological Politics of the Icon of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia Get access John P. Burgess John P. Burgess [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 58, Issue 3, Summer 2016, Pages 483–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csv005 Published: 29 March 2015

  • Just War and the Peaceable Kingdom

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEHarvard Theological Review2014

    Nations love to go to war, argue leftist pacifists in democratic Western societies. By this account, governments cannot resist the temptation to assert their selfish interests by violent means. Political leaders use the language of just war to hide their real intentions: imperialistic domination and economic profit. These pacifists charge that with the Iraq war, the disastrous consequences of such politics have become hideously clear again

  • On a derivation of the necessity of identity

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLESynthese2014Cited by: 2References: 18

  • Commensurability and methods in critical security studies

    J Peter Burge, J Peter BurgessARTICLECritical Studies on Security2014References: 1

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsJ. Peter BurgessJ. Peter Burgess is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Senior Researcher at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  • A Jump Ahead”

    Open AccessWolf Krötke, J Peter Burge et al.ARTICLETheology Today2012

    North American Christians increasingly spe ak of the church’s missiological task in a post-Christian context. The situation of the church in Eastern Germany offers us important insights. This area, once the heart of the Reformation, is now among the most secularized parts of the world. Most people no longer know basic Christian language or practices. They are either indifferent about matters of faith or suspicious that Christianity, like all reli…

  • Value, Security and Temporality in Nietzsche's Critique of Modernity

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, J Peter BurgessARTICLEThe Sociological Review2012References: 7

    A certain pathos of temporality is at the core of Nietzsche's critique of reason, and it is this pathos that motivates his questioning of the Western discourse of values and of valuation. The well-rehearsed Nietzschean thesis about the decline of values in modernity - nihilism as a kind of character fault of the modern personality -builds in effect less upon the values themselves (whatever these might be specified as) than upon a certain evolutio…

  • Truth

    Open AccessAlexis Burgess, Alexis G Burgess et al.BOOKTruth2011

    This book is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, the book covers a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth–value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from Alfred…

  • Truth

    Open AccessAlexis G Burge, Alexis Burgess et al.BOOKTruth2011

    This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, Burgess and Burgess cover a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth-value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from A…

  • Ethical Subject of Security

    J Peter Burge, J Peter BurgessBOOKThe ethical subject of security2011

  • Poland, 1980–1984

    J Peter Burge, John Burge et al.ARTICLEHumanities Research2010

    The late Francis Stuart, the first Australian Ambassador to be resident in Poland, wrote an interesting book about his long career in the Foreign Service. Towards Coming of Age was published in 1989 and Stuart's reflections on his last post abroad, to Poland, included the following: It is fanciful to believe that the Soviet leadership would ever question the infallibility of their official doctrine or relinquish the glacis of subordinate states p…

  • Method in the Madness

    Keith Townsend, J Peter Burge et al.BOOKMethod in the madness2009

  • The New Nomos of Europe

    J Peter Burge, J Peter BurgessARTICLEGeopolitics2009Cited by: 1

    According to Carl Schmitt, in his late work The Nomos of the Earth, published in 1950, the long evolution in the relation between humans and the earth has been decisive for the nature of traditional legal order. The historical links to European international jurisprudence (ius publicum Europaeum) have decayed with the old world order that supported them. Territoriality, once the foundation of the nation-state has evolved, causing a parallel chang…

  • Tarski's tort

    Open AccessJ Peter BurgeCHAPTER2008

    While what Alfred Tarski labeled his "semantic conception of truth" has been much discussed, one topic that has not received all the attention it deserves is his choice of that label. It is this comparatively neglected aspect of Tarski's conception that I wish to address here. But first a word about the situation prior to Tarski.

  • Mathematics, Models, and Modality

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, John P BurgessBOOKMathematics, Models, and Modality2008

    John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through counter-criticism of their nominalist, intuitionist, relevantist, and other critics. This selection of his essays, which spans twenty-five years, addresses key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation. An introduction sets the essays in context and offers a retrospec…

  • The ethical challenges of human security in the age of globalisation

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, J Peter BurgessARTICLEInternational Social Science…2008

    The moral innovation of human security is also its terrible Achilles' heel. In a world of globalisation, where the values of the global view are imposed upon most people with the force of necessity, the concerns of individuals resist global action. At the very moment when individual concerns are put on the agenda, the possibility for achieving anything local is nearly erased by individual weakness in a world of massive collective interests. What …

  • Ambivalent patriotism

    Open AccessJ Peter Burge, J Peter Burgess et al.ARTICLENations and Nationalism2004Cited by: 5References: 3

    Like many Norwegian elite, Jacob Aall (1773–1844) lived between two national identities – Norwegian and Danish. On the one hand, he was a subject of the Danish crown, educated in Denmark in the refinements of European knowledge and high culture; on the other he was a loyal provincial son of Norway, engaged in building the political and economic autonomy of his homeland. This article examines the two sides of national identity in Jacob Aall's life…

  • Quine, Analyticity and Philosophy of Mathematics

    J Peter Burge, John P BurgessARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2004Cited by: 2References: 3

    Quine correctly argues that Carnap's distinction between internal and external questions rests on a distinction between analytic and synthetic, which Quine rejects. I argue that Quine needs something like Carnap's distinction to enable him to explain the obviousness of elementary mathematics, while at the same time continuing to maintain as he does that the ultimate ground for holding mathematics to be a body of truths lies in the contribution th…