This book uncovers and explain the philosophical puzzles that a commitment to a proportionality limit on violence and harm gives rise to. It also maps out various positions that we may take in response to these puzzles and argues for certain responses.
This book uncovers and explain the philosophical puzzles that a commitment to a proportionality limit on violence and harm gives rise to. It also maps out various positions that we may take in response to these puzzles and argues for certain responses.
Patrick Tomlin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he is also a member of the Centre for Ethics, Law, and Public Affairs. He was previously at the University of Reading, and before that was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He studied at Nottingham, UCL, and Oxford. Professor Tomlin works in moral, political, and legal philosophy. His work has appeared in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Philosophical Quarterly. He is a former Associate Editor of Law and Philosophy and Philosophy & Public Affairs. He is a recipient of the American Philosophical Association's Berger Memorial Prize in Legal Philosophy.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1: Proportionality: A Conceptual Map Chapter 2: Limiting Proportionality: Scope and Defence Chapter 3: Baseline Problems Chapter 4: Baselines: A New Hope? Chapter 5: Further Baselines Chapter 6: Wars and Acts of War Chapter 7: Subjective Proportionality Chapter 8: Carry on Killing? Chapter 9: Killing vs Headaches: Wide Proportionality and Aggregation Chapter 10: A Real Headache: Proportionality, Necessity, and Relevance Chapter 11: Infinite Killing? Narrow Proportionality and Aggregation
Introduction Chapter 1: Proportionality: A Conceptual Map Chapter 2: Limiting Proportionality: Scope and Defence Chapter 3: Baseline Problems Chapter 4: Baselines: A New Hope? Chapter 5: Further Baselines Chapter 6: Wars and Acts of War Chapter 7: Subjective Proportionality Chapter 8: Carry on Killing? Chapter 9: Killing vs Headaches: Wide Proportionality and Aggregation Chapter 10: A Real Headache: Proportionality, Necessity, and Relevance Chapter 11: Infinite Killing? Narrow Proportionality and Aggregation
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