ASSASSINATING CITIZENS: How not to fight terror
By Brian Earp See Brian’s most recent previous post by clicking here. See all of Brian’s previous posts by clicking here. In this ‘hour’ of danger: Civil liberties and the eternal threat of terror...
View ArticleOld threats never die, they fade away from our minds: nuclear winter
In 1983, scientists published a paper on nuclear winter. This boosted the death toll of all-out nuclear war from ‘only’ 200-500 million to the very real possibility of the complete extinction of the...
View ArticleWe may need to end all war. Quickly.
Public opinion and governments wrestle with a difficult problem: whether or not to intervene in Syria. The standard arguments are well known – just war theory, humanitarian protection of civilian...
View ArticleCry havoc and let slip the robots of war?
Stop killer robots now, UN asks: the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns has delivered a report about Lethal Autonomous Robots arguing that there...
View ArticleAnnouncement: The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (SCEWP)...
The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (SCEWP) has just launched a new blog. The Ethical War Blog will publish short and timely opinion articles on war-related topics in the news, written...
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Guest Post: KILLER ROBOTS AND THE ETHICS OF WAR IN THE 21th CENTURY
Written by Darlei Dall’Agnol[1] I attended, recently, the course Drones, Robots and the Ethics of Armed Conflict in the 21st Century, at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University,...
View ArticleVideo Interview with Professor Jeff McMahon on Increasing Airstrikes in Syria...
In the first of a series of video interviews by Dr Katrien Devolder hosted by the Practical Ethics in the News blog, Jeff McMahan discusses the war in Syria. In the aftermath of the Paris terror...
View ArticleOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: “The Justice of Punitive Wars”...
This essay received an Honourable Mention in the graduate category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Written by University of Oxford, Oriel College student Benjamin Koons Introduction...
View ArticleTargeted Killing and Black Boxes
Written By Mitt Regan and Michael Robillard Various aspects of the US targeted killing program have attracted considerable attention and some criticism in philosophy and international law....
View ArticleThe ‘Killer Robots’ Are Us
Written by Dr Michael Robillard In a recent New York Times article Dr Michael Robillard writes: “At a meeting of the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva in November, a group of...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military...
In a fascinating presentation hosted in March by the Oxford Uehiro Centre in Practical Ethics, Professor Seumas Miller spoke about what is now known as ‘moral injury’ and its relation to PTSD,...
View ArticleReligion, War and Terrorism
In a fascinating, engaging, and wide-ranging talk in the New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar series, Professor Tony Coady provided several powerful arguments against the increasingly widespread...
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Cross Post: Western Pharma Companies Should Supply Only Essential Medicines...
Written by Alex Polyakov, The University of Melbourne and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford ShutterstockIn response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and overwhelming destruction of property and...
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