Lewis Hahn Lecture 2026: George R. Lucas, Jr.
The AIPCT in cooperation with the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity is pleased to announce the 2026 Lewis Hahn Memorial Lecture. Read about the series here.
This year’s honoree is George R. Lucas, Jr. The event will take place June 30, 2026 at AIPCT beginning at 3:00. There will be snacks and drinks provided, although attendees are welcome to bring their own contributions to food and drink. At 6:00 there will be pizza for everyone present. The event is free and open to the public.
The Schedule
3:00 Jose-Miguel Rosillo-Cevallos, “A Defense of Martial Integrity as a Virtuous Weapon”
4:30 Gary L. Herstein,
7:00 George R. Lucas, Jr., “
The Talks
Jose-Miguel Rosillo-Cevallos, A Defense of Martial Integrity as a Virtuous Weapon.”
This lecture aims to explain the significance of the intellectual corpus of George R Lucas Jr in the field of military ethics, in order to motivate a proposal for meeting the current global geopolitical and technological moment in light of my independent concept of ethical risk, defined as the possibility of loss of stakeholder trust, as deployable by military institutions and individuals alike.
Gary L. Herstein,
The Presenters
George Lucas (a philosopher, not the famous film director) is recognized for his work in two distinct areas: (1) metaphysics and the history of modern philosophy; (2) moral theory and applied ethics.
In the first area he initially focused on A.N. Whitehead, G.W.F. Hegel, R.G. Collingwood, and the development of process metaphysics. His dissertation at Northwestern University in 1978, Two Views of Freedom in Process Thought, was selected by the American Academy of Religion for publication in the initial AAR Dissertation Series (#28) in 1979. His subsequent work, supported by a bibliographical fellowship from the American Theological Library Association, was published as The Genesis of Modern Process Thought (Scarecrow Press, 1983) and selected as an outstanding academic book by Choice magazine. He was perhaps best known in this area for a subsequent book, The Rehabilitation of Whitehead (State University of New York Press, 1990) and most recently, The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), subsequently awarded the J.N. Findlay Prize by the Metaphysical Society of America in 2024. From 2010 to 2024, Lucas served as the General Editor of the Collected Edition of A.N. Whitehead, also published by Edinburgh U.P. He was elected President of the Metaphysical Society of America in 2016, and awarded the MSA’s “Paul Weiss Founder’s Medal” in 2022.
Lucas’s second area of work is ethics and applied ethics. His historical focus is on Kant and deontological ethics. The applied focus is principally on the fields of military ethics, the ethics of war and peace, and ethics and emerging military technologies. He is a member and past president of the International Society for Military Ethics. His works include Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford U.P., 2016), Ethics and Cyberwarfare (Oxford U.P., 2017), Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century: Moving Beyond Clausewitz (Routledge, 2019), and Law, Ethics, and Emerging Military Technologies: Confronting Disruptive Innovation (Routledge, 2023). He is co-editor (with CAPN W.R. Rubel, USN) of Ethics and the Military Profession and a companion volume, Case Studies is Military Ethics (Pearson, 2003-2015) among the most widely used textbooks in this field in the world.
Lucas was a tenured professor at the Santa Clara University, Clemson University, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the Naval Postgraduate School. He retired in 2014, after which he served over the subsequent decade as a visiting professor at Notre Dame University, Case-Western University, the French Military Academy (St.-Cyr), and finally as the Stockdale Professor of Ethics at the U.S. Naval War College (Newport, RI). He is currently an adjunct visiting professor at the Southern Illinois University (Carbondale IL), where he is A.N. Whitehead Professor of Philosophy and Director, the Center for Process Studies Archives.
Gary L. Herstein is a Senior Research Fellow at AIPCT, and an independent scholar and author. His Ph.D. in philosophy is from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2005), with an Interdisciplinary Masters degree from DePaul University, and a BA in philosophy from Occidental College. His interests include process philosophy, American philosophy, and the history and philosophies of mathematics and logic. He is author of Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology (Ontos 2006), and co-author of The Quantum of Explanation: Whitehead’s Radical Empiricism. Now retired from formal employment, he spends much of his time writing fantasy fiction in addition to his philosophical researches. He currently resides in Carbondale.
Jose-Miguel Rosillo-Cevallos is an ethics strategist and founder of Veritamor, an ethics consultancy via which he has advised public and private institutions and individuals for over a decade across sectors and borders. Originally from Mexico City, he graduated from Stonyhurst College in 2010 and currently serves as Ambassador for the Stonyhurst mAssociation in Mexico. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Miami in 2015 for Psychology, Anthropology, and Philosophy, where he founded Miami Mindfulness, and his graduate degree from Texas Tech University in 2017 for Philosophy and Ethics.
He is currently enrolled in law school at UNAM, as his grandfather once was. He has advised Grupo Financiero Banorte, the Mexico City Supreme Court, and the Navy of Mexico, which are offered as token examples of his primary specialties as a Corporate & Judicial & Military Ethicist, respectively. His goal is to establish ethics as a strategic priority in the global political and economic landscape.
