Killing by remote control : the ethics of an unmanned military /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Strawser, Bradley Jay
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : 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.

Table of Contents:

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.