Ethics and Autonomous Weapons

2016. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52360-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 131 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 2888 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leveringhaus, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Ausrüstung & Waffen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Theorie der Kriegsführung und Militärwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments. Chapter I/Introduction: Ethics and the autonomous weapons debate. Chapter II: Autonomous weaponry: conceptual issues. Chapter III: From warfare without humans to warfare without responsibility?. Chapter IV: Human agency and artificial agency in war. Chapter V: Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Alex Leveringhaus is a Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He is also a James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin School. Prior to these positions, he held a joint appointment as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at ELAC and the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology.