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Duty and liability [PDF]

, 2011
In his recent book, Killing in War, Jeff McMahan sets out a number of conditions for a person to be liable to attack, provided the attack is used to avert an objectively unjust threat: (1) The threat, if realized, will wrongfully harm another; (2) the ...
Tadros, Thomson, VICTOR TADROS
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Distributive justice for aggressors [PDF]

, 2020
The individualist nature of much contemporary just war theory means that we often discuss cases with single attackers. But even if war is best understood in this individualist way, in war combatants often have to make decisions about how to distribute ...
Tomlin, Patrick
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Eating animals the nice way

Daedalus, 2008
Dædalus Winter 2008 Many people are opposed to factory farming because of the terrible suffering it inflicts on animals, yet see no objection to eating animals that are killed painlessly after having been reared in conditions that are at least no worse ...
Jeff McMahan
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Just War Theory and the Russia-Ukraine War

Studia Philosophica Estonica
This article deploys what has come to be known as revisionist just war theory to analyze the morality of action by both sides in the current Russia-Ukraine war.
Jeff McMahan
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Moral certainty and the wrongness of killing: A non‐propositional view

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 170-194, April 2026.
Abstract In 2008 I published a paper making the case that Wittgenstein's On Certainty reflections can be fruitfully extended to cast light on the foundations of our moral lives and practices. My primary example was that the wrongness of killing is a basic moral certainty.
Nigel Pleasants
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The Total Artificial Heart and the Dilemma of Deactivation [PDF]

, 2016
It is widely believed to be permissible for a physician to discontinue any treatment upon the request of a competent patient. Many also believe it is never permissible for a physician to intentionally kill a patient.
Bronner, Ben
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 112-127, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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Thou Shalt Not Create; But If Thou Dost, Thou Shalt Kill? A Comment on Belshaw

Journal of Controversial Ideas
In his article “Anti-Natalism and the Asymmetry” in this issue, Christopher Belshaw defends the common-sense view that, while there is a reason not to cause individuals to exist whose lives would not be worth living, there is no reason to cause ...
Jeff McMahan
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Saving People from the Harm of Death

, 2019
Many people believe that death is one of the worst things that can happen to us. At the same time, the incident of death cannot be experienced. This raises philosophical questions about how and to whom death is bad.
J. Mcmahan
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Accidentally Killing on Purpose Again: Intentions Under Uncertainty

Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 228-238, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Many philosophers believe that intentions are relevant to the justification of harm—they believe that intentional harms, or harms that result from intentionally affecting or using another person, are harder to justify than harms that are merely foreseen.
Patrick Tomlin
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