Killing in war
By: Jeff McMahan
Series: Uehiro series in practical ethics
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780199603572
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Responsibility; Combat; Conscientious objection; Military ethics; War
Notes: "First published in paperback 2011"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: The morality of participation in an unjust war; title: The doctrine of the moral equality of combatants; title: The traditional criterion of liability to attack in war; title: Can unjust combatants satisfy the principles of Jus in Bello?; title: The basis of moral liability to attack in war; title: Arguments for the moral equality of combatants; title: Justification and liability; title: Consent; title: The boxing match model of war; title: The gladiatorial combat model of war; title: Hypothetical consent; title: The epistemic argument; title: Institutions as sources of justification; title: The duty to defer to the epistemic authority of the government; title: The duty to sustain the efficient functioning of just institutions; title: Fairness to fellow participants; title: The collectivist approach to the morality of war; title: Transferred responsibility; title: Symmetrical disobedience; title: Conscientious refusal; title: Excuses; title: Sources of allegiance to the moral equality of combatants; title: The conflation of morality and law; title: The conflation of permission and excuse; title: Excusing conditions for unjust combatants; title: Duress; title: Epistemic limitation; title: Diminished responsibility; title: Skepticism about excusing unjust combatants; title: Consistency; title: Are unjust combatants excused by epistemic limitations?; title: Liability and the limits of self-defense; title: Different types of threat; title: The relevance of excuses to killing in self-defense; title: Culpable threats; title: Partially excused threats; title: Excused threats and innocent threats; title: Nonresponsible threats; title: Justified threats and just threats; title: Liability to defensive attack; title: The moral status of unjust combatants; title: Liability and punishment; title: The relevance of excuses to the distribution of risk; title: Child soldiers; title: Civilian immunity and civilian liability; title: The moral and legal foundations of civilian immunity; title: The possible bases of civilian liability; title: Civilian liability to lesser and collateral harms; title: Can civilians be liable to intentional military attack?; title: Civilian liability and terrorism.