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How We Fight MIND ASSOCIATION OCCASIONAL SERIES This series consists of carefully selected volumes of significant original papers on predefined themes, normally growing out of a conference supported by a Mind Association Major Conference Grant. The Association nominates an editor or editors for each collection, and may cooperate with other bodies in promoting conferences or other scholarly activities in connection with the preparation of particular volumes. Director, Mind Association: M. Fricker Publications Officer: Julian Dodd Recently Published in the Series: Thick Concepts Edited by Simon Kirchin Metaphysics and Science Edited by Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby Wittgenstein’s Tractatus History and Interpretation Edited by Peter Sullivan and Michael Potter Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction Edited by Catharine Abell and Katerina Bantinaki Emergence in Mind Edited by Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism Essays on Wilfrid Sellars Edited by Willem A. deVries Spheres of Reason New Essays in the Philosophy of Normativity Edited by Simon Robertson Dispositions and Causes Edited by Toby Handfield Images of Empiricism Essays on Science and Stances, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen Edited by Bradley Monton Philosophers on Music Experience, Meaning, and Work Edited by Kathleen Stock Frowe110713OUK.indb 2 3/17/2014 3:24:09 PM How We Fight Ethics in War edited by Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6dp, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © The several contributors 2014 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2014 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2013952011 ISBN 978–0–19–967343–8 As printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, cr0 4yy Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. Gerald Lang dedicates this volume to his mother, and to the memory of his father, William Arthur Lang (1919–2006). Helen Frowe dedicates this volume to her mum, Julia, who never underestimates the importance of a Bellini at sunset. Acknowledgements These papers arose from a conference on just war theory held at the University of Sheffield in August 2010. We are very grateful to all the attendees, and to the spon- sors of the event: the Leverhulme Trust, the Mind Association, and the Aristotelian Society. We are also grateful for support from the Wallenberg Foundation dur- ing the book’s final stages. We would like to thank Peter Momtchiloff at Oxford University Press for his advice and encouragement, along with two anonymous referees who provided us with helpful comments on the draft papers. Special thanks are also due to David R. Mapel, who helped us to referee papers for the volume. Finally, we’d like to thank the authors for letting us publish their splendid papers. Contents Notes on Contributors xi Introduction xiii Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang 1. Varieties of Contingent Pacifism in War 1 Saba Bazargan 2. Punitive War 18 Victor Tadros 3. Why Not Forfeiture? 38 Gerald Lang 4. Self-Defence, Just War, and a Reasonable Prospect of Success 62 Suzanne Uniacke 5. Self-Defense, Resistance, and Suicide: The Taliban Women 75 F. M. Kamm 6. Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defense? 87 Adam Hosein 7. Self-Defense Against Justified Threateners 104 Jeff McMahan 8. Just War Theory, Intentions, and the Deliberative Perspective Objection 138 Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen 9. Risking and Protecting Lives: Soldiers and Opposing Civilians 155 Noam Zohar 10. Non-Combatant Liability in War 172 Helen Frowe Index 189
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