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3Ratio, EarlyView.
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19Supererogatory and obligatory rescues: Should we institutionalize the duty to intervene?Journal of Social Philosophy 54 (2): 183-200. 2023.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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8This book argues that the risk of harm in armed conflict should be divided equally between combatants and enemy non-combatants. International law requires that combatants in war take 'all feasible precautions' to minimise damage to civilian objects, injury to civilians, and incidental loss of civilian life. However, there is no clear explanation of what 'feasible precautions' means in this context, or what would count as sufficiently minimised incidental harm. As a result, it is difficult to jud…Read more
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2Challenging Humanitarian Intervention? (review)Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 11 (2): 81-89. 2019.N/A
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11Sharing the costs of fighting justlyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (2): 233-253. 2020.Combatants who attempt to obey the laws of war often have to take considerable risks in order to effectively discriminate between legitimate and illegitimate targets. Sometimes this task is made even more complicated by systemic factors which influence their ability to discriminate effectively without unduly risking their lives or the mission. If they fail to do so, civilians often pay the price. In this paper, I argue that to the extent that non-combatants benefit from the attempt to fight just…Read more
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28Counting Animals in WarSocial Theory and Practice 47 (4): 657-685. 2021.War is harmful to animals, but few have considered how such harm should affect assessments of the justice of military actions. In this article, we propose a way in which concern for animals can be included within the just-war framework, with a focus on necessity and proportionality. We argue that counting animals in war will not make just-war theory excessively demanding, but it will make just-war theory more humane. By showing how animals can be included in our proportionality and necessity ass…Read more
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2Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: The True Cost of the MilitaryN.Dobos, 2020OxfordOxford University Press ix 184 pp, £45 (hb) (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 38 (2): 351-353. 2021.
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14Sharing the costs of fighting justlyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2): 1-21. 2018.Combatants who attempt to obey the laws of war often have to take considerable risks in order to effectively discriminate between legitimate and illegitimate targets. Sometimes this task is made even more complicated by systemic factors which influence their ability to discriminate effectively without unduly risking their lives or the mission. If they fail to do so, civilians often pay the price. In this paper, I argue that to the extent that non-combatants benefit from the attempt to fight just…Read more
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9Harming Civilians and the Associative Duties of SoldiersJournal of Applied Philosophy 35 (3): 584-600. 2016.According to International Humanitarian Law and many writing on just war theory, combatants who foresee that their actions will harm or kill innocent non-combatants are required to take some steps to reduce these merely foreseen harms. However, because often reducing merely foreseen harms place burdens on combatants – including risk to their lives – this requirement has been criticised for requiring too much of combatants. One reason why this might be the case is that combatants have duties to e…Read more
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Social and Political Philosophy |
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Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
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