When is it morally permissible to engage in self-defense or the defense of others? Jonathan
Quong defends a variety of novel ideas in this book about the morality of defensive force …

The words' rebellion'and'revolution'have gained renewed prominence in the vocabulary of
world politics and so has the question of justifiable armed'resistance'. In this book …

In this article, it is argued that the constitutive principles of Just War Theory and the jus ad
bellum/jus in bello duality do not transfer all that well to national security intelligence activity …

Does undercover police work inevitably wrong its targets? Or are undercover activities
justified by a general security benefit? In this article I argue that people can make …

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the moral and legal justifications for the use of
force. While the book focuses on the ethics self-defense, it also explores its relation to lesser …

This book provides a thorough critical overview of the current debate on the ethics of war, as
well as a modern just war theory that can give practical action-guidance by recognizing and …

A central tenet of medical ethics holds that it is permissible to perform a medical intervention
on a competent individual only if that individual has given informed consent to the …

Albert is angry with you because you will not go out on a date with him. He is advancing
toward you and is going to wrongfully harm you unless you use defensive force against him …

It is an orthodoxy of modern political thought that violence is morally incompatible with
politics, with the important exception of the permissible violence carried out by the state. The …

Killing and harming others are paradigmatic wrongs. And yet there is at least one intuitive
exception to this prohibition—namely, killing or harming in self-defense, or in defense of …