TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leveringhaus, Alex
TI  - Ethics and Autonomous Weapons / 
SN  - 9781137523600
U1  - 355 LEV 23rd Ed.
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford, UK
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Peace; Politics and war, Political science; Humanitarian law; Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)
N1  - It includes Bibliography and Index Pages.

About this book

 This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous weapons. Autonomous weapons are capable, once programmed, of searching for and engaging a target without direct intervention by a human operator. Critics of these weapons claim that ‘taking the human out-of-the-loop’ represents a further step towards the de-humanisation of warfare, while advocates of this type of technology contend that the power of machine autonomy can potentially be harnessed in order to prevent war crimes. This book provides a thorough and critical assessment of these two positions. Written by a political philosopher at the forefront of the autonomous weapons debate, the book clearly assesses the ethical and legal ramifications of autonomous weapons, and presents a novel ethical argument against fully autonomous weapons.

Table of Contents:


Front Matter
Pages i-vii
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Ethics and the Autonomous Weapons Debate

    Alex Leveringhaus 

Pages 1-30
Autonomous Weaponry: Conceptual Issues

    Alex Leveringhaus 

Pages 31-58
From Warfare Without Humans to Warfare Without Responsibility?

    Alex Leveringhaus 

Pages 59-87
Human Agency and Artificial Agency in War

    Alex Leveringhaus 

Pages 89-117
Conclusion

    Alex Leveringhaus 

Pages 119-123
Back Matter
Pages 125-131





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