Killing by remote control : the ethics of an unmanned military / edited by Bradley Jay Strawser.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Strawser, Bradley Jay
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Military robots > Moral and ethical aspects.
Drone aircraft > Moral and ethical aspects.
Robotics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Robotics > Military applications.
Military ethics.
Physical Description:xxv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : the moral landscape of unmanned weapons / Bradley J. Strawser
  • Just war theory and remote military technology : a primer / Matthew Hallgarth
  • Distinguishing drones : an exchange / Asa Kasher and Avery Plaw
  • Drones and targeted killing : angels or assassins? / David Whetham
  • War without virtue? / Robert Sparrow
  • Robot guardians : teleoperated combat vehicles in humanitarian military intervention / Zack Beauchamp and Julian Savulescu
  • Counting the dead : the proportionality of predation in Pakistan / Avery Plaw
  • The Wizard of Oz goes to war : unmanned systems in counterinsurgency / Rebecca J. Johnson
  • Killing them safely : extreme asymmetry and its discontents / Uwe Steinhoff
  • Engineering, ethics & industry : the moral challenges of lethal autonomy / George R. Lucas, Jr
  • Autonomous weapons pose no moral problem / Stephen Kershnar.