How We Fight

Ethics in War
Herausgeber: Frowe, Helen; Lang, Gerald

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How We Fight: Ethics in War contains ten groundbreaking essays by some of the leading philosophers of war. The essays offer new perspectives on key debates including pacifism, punitive justifications for war, the distribution of risk between combatants and non-combatants, the structure of 'just war theory', and bases of individual liability in war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199673438
• ISBN-10: 0199673438
• Artikelnr.: 39741053

Autorenporträt

Helen Frowe is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. Gerald Lang is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He held previous appointments in Reading and Oxford. He has very wide-ranging interests in moral and political philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Saba Bazargan: Varieties of Contingent Pacifism in War
* 2: Victor Tadros: Punitive War
* 3: Gerald Lang: Why Not Forfeiture?
* 4: Suzanne Uniacke: Self-Defence, Just War, and a Reasonable Prospect
of Success
* 5: Frances M. Kamm: Self-Defense, Resistance, and Suicide: The
Taliban Women
* 6: Adam Hosein: Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights
Theory of Self-Defence?
* 7: Jeff McMahan: Self-Defense Against Justified Threateners
* 8: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Just War Theory, Intentions, and the
Deliberative Perspective Objection
* 9: Noam Zohar: Risking and Protecting Lives: Soldiers and Opposing
Civilians
* 10: Helen Frowe: Non-Combatant Liability in War
* Index