Title: Killing by remote control : the ethics of an unmanned military /
Authors: Strawser, Bradley Jay
Year: 2013
Subjects: Military robots Moral and ethical aspects.; Drone aircraft Moral and ethical aspects.; Robotics Moral and ethical aspects.; Robotics Military applications; Military ethics.
Abstract: A new powerful military weapon has appeared in the skies of world and with it a new form of warfare has quickly emerged bringing with it a host of pressing ethical questions and issues. This book brings together some of the best scholars currently working on these questions.
Contents: Just war theory and the permissibility to kill by remote control -- Introduction: The moral landscape of unmanned weapons / Bradley J. Strawser -- Just war theory and remote military technology: a primer / Matthew Hallgarth -- Distinguishing drones: an exchange / Asa Kasher and Avery Plaw -- The ethics of drone employment -- Drones and targeted killing: angels or assassins? / David Whetham -- War without virtue? / Robert Sparrow -- Robot guardians: teleoperated combat vehicles in humanitarian military intervention / Zack Beauchamp and Julian Savulescu -- Counting the dead: the proportionality of predation in Pakistan / Avery Plaw -- The Wizard of Oz goes to war: unmanned systems in counterinsurgency / Rebecca J. Johnson -- Killing them safely: extreme asymmetry and its discontents / Uwe Steinhoff -- Autonomous drones and the future of unmanned weaponry -- Engineering, ethics & industry: the moral challenges of lethal autonomy / George R. Lucas, Jr -- Autonomous weapons pose no moral problem / Stephen Kershnar.