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

Contributor Strawser, Bradley Jay.

ImprintOxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Descriptionxxv, 264 p. ; 24 cm

Note:Just war theory and the permissibility to kill by remote control -- 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 -- The ethics of drone employment -- 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 -- Autonomous drones and the future of unmanned weaponry -- Engineering, ethics & industry: the moral challenges of lethal autonomy / George R. Lucas, Jr -- Autonomous weapons pose no moral problem / Stephen Kershnar.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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