Roach / Eckert Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare

Just War Theory and the Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8002-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Ethics and the Challenges of Contemporary Warfare

Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roach, Steven C.

Eckert, Amy E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Dual Moral Responsibility and the Ethical Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Warfare
Steven C. Roach and Amy E. Eckert

Part I: Just War and Moral Authority

1. Defending Conventionalist Just War Theory in the Face of Twenty-First-Century Warfare
Peter Sutch

2. The Fantasy of Nonviolence and the End (?) of Just War
Laura Sjoberg

3. Contemporary Nuclear Deterrence Dynamics and the Question of Dual Moral Responsibility
Thomas E. Doyle II

4. Private Military and Security Companies: Justifying Moral Responsibility through Self-Regulation
Sommer Mitchell

Part II: Autonomous Weapons Systems and Moral Responsibility

5. The Rights of (Killer) Robots
David J. Gunkel

6. No Hands or Many Hands? Deproblematizing the Case for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Jai Galliott

7. Ethical Weapons: A Case for AI in Weapons
Jason B. Scholz, Dale A. Lambert, Robert S. Bolia, and Jai Galliott

Conclusion: The Future (Idea) of Just War and Autonomous Weapons Systems
Steven C. Roach

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Relations at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics and Critical Theory of International Politics: Complementarity, Justice, and Governance. Amy E. Eckert is Professor of Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her books include Outsourcing War: The Just War Tradition in the Age of Military Privatization and The Future of Just War: New Critical Essays (coedited with Caron E. Gentry).