War and Individual Rights

Kai Draper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. He writes on the significance of death, the ethics of self-defense and war, and the nature of evidence. His work has appeared in the Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Philosophical Studies, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and other leading philosophical journals.

Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; 1.1: Overview ; 1.2: Individualism vs. collectivism ; 1.3: Methodology ; 1.4: The existence of moral rights ; 1.5: Terminology ; Chapter 2: A Lockean Framework of Rights ; 2.1: The right to one's own person ; 2.2: Property rights and rights of first arrival ; 2.3: Negative need rights ; 2.4: Autonomy, well-being, and rights ; Chapter 3: Rights and Harm ; 3.1: The doctrine of doing and allowing ; 3.2: Quinn's interpretation of the doctrine ; 3.3: Foot's interpretation of the doctrine ; 3.4: The causal interpretation of the doctrine ; 3.5: The acting-on interpretation of the doctrine ; 3.6: A rights-based alternative ; 3.7: Three objections ; 3.8: Rights and intentions ; Chapter 4: Liability to Defense ; 4.1: The rights enforcement account ; 4.2: Defense against the innocent ; 4.3: Defense of the guilty ; 4.4: The defense liability principle ; 4.5: Forfeiture ; 4.6: Montague and McMahan ; Chapter 5: Necessity and Proportionality in Defense ; 5.1: A defense of internalism ; 5.2: Necessary harm ; 5.3: Proportionate harm ; 5.4: Do the numbers count? ; Chapter 6: Liberating Just War Theory from Double Effect ; 6.1: The structure of my argument ; 6.2: PDE, MP and rights ; 6.3: Quinn's defense of double effect ; 6.4: Recent attempts to improve upon Quinn ; 6.5: The restricted claims principle ; 6.6: Alleged support for a strongly discriminating principle ; 6.7: The irrelevance of weakly discriminating principles ; Chapter 7: The Rights of Innocent Bystanders ; 7.1: Unauthorized violence ; 7.2: Excusable violence ; 7.3: Liability through assumed risk ; 7.4: Ex ante compensation ; 7.5: Justifiable infringements upon rights ; Chapter 8: How to Justify Waging War ; 8.1: The justifiable war principle ; 8.2: Is the justifiable war principle too demanding? ; 8.3: The flaws of traditional jus ad bellum ; Chapter 9: The Scope of Liability in War ; 9.1: Combatants and military personnel ; 9.2: Those who assist unjust aggressors ; 9.3: Munitions workers ; 9.4: Farmers and taxpayers ; Chapter 10: Citizenship and Liability ; 10.1: Agency and liability ; 10.2: Nonintervention and liability ; Chapter 11: Conclusions ; Appendix: Need Rights and Compensation ; Index