Nancy Davis and the means-end relation: Toward a defense of the Doctrine of Double Effect

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 437-457

  Woodward, P A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.5840/acpq200377322     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Jonathan Bennett, The Act Itself (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), 196-7.
2. See Nancy Davis, "The Doctrine of Double Effect: Problems of Interpretation", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 65(1984):107-23.
3. All page references to Davis are to this paper. Other philosophers who have been interested in this third condition include Bennett, in the book cited in note 1, especially pages 194 and following; Warren Quinn, "Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Principle of Double Effect", Philosophy and Public Affairs 18(Fall, 1989):335-41;
4. John Martin Fischer, Mark Ravizza, and David Copp, "Quinn on Double Effect: The Problem of Closeness", Ethics 103(July, 1993):707-25;
5. P. A. Woodward, "The Importance of the Proportionality Condition: A Reply to Fischer, Ravizza, and Copp", The Journal of Social Philosophy 27(Fall, 1997):140-52;
6. and Donald Marquis, "Double Effect, Jonathan Bennett and the Problem of Closeness", presented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in December 2000. Most of these papers, as well as others pertaining to the DDE, are reprinted in The Doctrine of Double Effect: Philosophers Debate a Controversial Moral Principle, ed. P. A. Woodward (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001).
7. See Alan Donagan, The Theory of Morality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 39. All page references to Donagan are to this volume.
8. Michael Bratman, Intentions, Plans, and Practical Reason (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987). All page references to Bratman are to this volume.
9. I am using as my source of information about this program Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie (New York: Random House, 1988).
10. This document is reprinted in Basic Documents Supplement to International Law Cases and Materials, ed. Louis Henken et al. (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1980), 323-5.