The ethics of self-defense / Christian Coons and Michael Weber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coons, Christian, editor.

Weber, Michael (Michael E.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Moral and ethical aspects.

Violence.

Self-defense--Moral and ethical aspects.

Self-defense.

Double effect (Ethics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

The fifteen new essays collected in this volume address questions concerning the ethics of self-defense, most centrally when and to what extent the use of defensive force, especially lethal force, can be justified.

Contents:

The ethics of self-defense : the current debate / Christian Coons and Michael Weber

Recipe for a theory of self-defense : the ingredients, and some cooking suggestions / Larry Alexander

The moral-responsibility account of liability to defensive killing / Michael Otsuka

Defensive liability without culpability / Saba Bazargan

Defense of self and others against culpable rights violators / Peter Valentyne

Causation, culpability, and liability / Victor Tadros

Self-defense and risks / Vera Bergelson

The role of necessity in liability to defensive harm / Helen Frowe

Necessity and proportionality in defense / Kai Draper

The limits of self-defense / Jeff McMahan

Against liability : a reasons-based account of self-defense / Michelle Madden Dempsey

Forfeiture and self-defense / Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

Stand your ground / Heidi M. Hurd

Necessity and institutions in self-defense and war / Ian Fishback

Liability and the ethics of war : a response to Strawser and McMahan / Seth Lazar.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2016).

ISBN:

9780190206116

019020611X