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ItemBystanders to Poverty(Oxford University Press, 2010)
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ItemThe Life You Can Save(Random House, 2009)
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ItemEach of us is just one among others(Oxford University Press, 2009)
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ItemCivilian Immunity in War(Ashgate, 2008)
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ItemMoral Mammals: Does Atheism of Theism Provide the Best Foundation for Human Worth and Morality?(Inter-Varsity Press, 2010)
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ItemDignity: one, two, three, four, five, still counting.(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010)“Dissecting Bioethics,” edited by Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry, welcomes contributions on the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of bioethics. The section is dedicated to the idea that words defined by bioethicists and others should not be allowed to imprison people's actual concerns, emotions, and thoughts. Papers that expose the many meanings of a concept, describe the different readings of a moral doctrine, or provide an alternative angle to seemingly self-evident issues are therefore particularly appreciated. The themes covered in the section so far include dignity, naturalness, public interest, community, disability, autonomy, parity of reasoning, symbolic appeals, and toleration. All submitted papers are peer reviewed. To submit a paper or to discuss a suitable topic, contact Tuija Takala at tuija.takala@helsinki.fi.
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ItemThe German Challenge to Mill's Arguments for Freedom of Speech(Mentis Verlag GmbH, 2009)
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ItemAutonomy is (Largely) Irrelevant( 2009)
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ItemRemote Weaponry: The Ethical Implications(Wiley, 2008-05)abstract The nature of warfare is changing. Increasingly, developments in military technology are removing soldiers from the battlefield, enabling war to be waged from afar. Bombs can be dropped from unmanned drones flying above the range of retaliation. Missiles can be launched, at minimal cost, from ships 200 miles to sea. Micro Air Vehicles, or ‘WASPS’, will soon be able to lethally attack enemy soldiers. Though still in the developmental stage, progress is rapidly being made towards autonomous weaponry capable of selecting, pursuing, and destroying targets without the necessity for human instruction. These developments have a profound — and as yet under‐analysed — impact on just war theory. I argue that a state under attack from remote weaponry is unable to respond in the traditional, just war sanctioned, method of targeting combatants on the battlefield. This restriction of options potentially creates a situation whereby a state is either coerced into surrender, or it must transgress civilian immunity. Just war theory in conditions of remote warfare therefore either serves the interests of the technologically advanced by demanding the surrender of targeted states, or else it becomes redundant.
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ItemClimate Change as an Ethical Issue(Melbourne University Press, 2008)