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Questioning Combatant’S Privilege In Unjust Wars, Harry Van Der Linden
Questioning Combatant’S Privilege In Unjust Wars, Harry Van Der Linden
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Following international humanitarian law, soldiers who are authorized by their states to fight wars of aggression have a legal right to kill enemy soldiers, and (indirectly) even enemy civilians, as long as they respect such jus in bello norms as discrimination and proportionality. I criticize a variety of arguments in support of this “combatant’s privilege” of aggressor soldiers that maintain that these soldiers have a moral right to kill or are not culpable for their wrongful killing. I also contest some arguments in support of the view that even though soldiers executing wars of aggression may be morally liable for …
Climate Change And Our Political Future, Harry Van Der Linden
Climate Change And Our Political Future, Harry Van Der Linden
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Harry van der Linden's review of Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright. Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018, ISBN 978178663429-0.
Writing A Moral Code: Algorithms For Ethical Reasoning By Humans And Machines, James F. Mcgrath, Ankur Gupta
Writing A Moral Code: Algorithms For Ethical Reasoning By Humans And Machines, James F. Mcgrath, Ankur Gupta
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The moral and ethical challenges of living in community pertain not only to the intersection of human beings one with another, but also our interactions with our machine creations. This article explores the philosophical and theological framework for reasoning and decision-making through the lens of science fiction, religion, and artificial intelligence (both real and imagined). In comparing the programming of autonomous machines with human ethical deliberation, we discover that both depend on a concrete ordering of priorities derived from a clearly defined value system.
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’S Shock Politics And Winning The World We Need, Harry Van Der Linden
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’S Shock Politics And Winning The World We Need, Harry Van Der Linden
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Review of Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017).
Drone Warfare And Just War Theory, Harry Van Der Linden
Drone Warfare And Just War Theory, Harry Van Der Linden
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This book chapter addresses two questions. First, can targeted killing by drones in non-battlefield zones be justified on basis of just war theory? Second, will the proliferation and expansion of combat drones in warfare, including the introduction of autonomous drones, be an obstacle to initiating or executing wars in a just manner in the future? The first question is answered by applying traditional jus ad bellum (justice in the resort to war) and jus in bello (justice in the execution of war) principles to the American targeted killing campaign in Pakistan; the second question is answered on basis of principles …