Self-defence among innocent people

Journal of Moral Philosophy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-146

  Øverland, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 59149086942     PISSN: 17404681     EISSN: 17455243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740468105054338     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. See for example, Suzanne Uniacke, Permissible Killing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 9-26
2. See John Gardner, 'Justifications and Reasons', in A.P. Simester and A.T.H. Smith (eds.), Harm and Culpability (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 105
3. See Kent Greenawalt, 'The Perplexing Borders of Justification', in Michael Louis Corrado (ed.), Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994), p. 363
4. See also George Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 762
5. The example is from Arthur Ripstein in Equality, Responsibility, and the Law, p. 193
6. A version of this example was first presented in Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974)
7. For an argument against its permissibility, see Michael Otsuka, 'Killing the Innocent in Self-Defence', Philosophy and Public Affairs 23 (1994), pp. 74-94
8. A defence of its permissibility is to be found in J. J. Thomson, 'Self-Defence', Philosophy and Public Affairs 20 (1991), pp. 283-310
9. David Rodin, War and Self-Defense (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), p. 88
10. Having a right to use defensive force against initiating threats should be understood as having a claim against being prevented when doing so, and no duty not to do it. See W.N. Hohfeld, Fundamental Legal Conceptions, ed. W.W. Cook (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), pp. 35-50
11. See also J.J. Thomson, The Realm of Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), particularly the first four chapters, pp. 37-122
12. Jeff McMahan, 'Self-Defence and the Problem of the Innocent Attacker', Ethics 104 (1994), pp. 252-90, at p. 288
13. See Thomas Nagel, 'Rawls on Justice', in Norman Daniels (ed.), Reading Rawls (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989), p. 5
14. and Thomson, The Realm of Rights, p. 187
15. See Otsuka, 'Killing the Innocent in Self-Defence', pp. 74-94
16. and Rodin, War and Self-Defense, pp. 70-89
17. See McMahan, 'Self-Defence and the Problem of the Innocent Attacker', p. 283