Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Workshop on McMahan's Killing in War

The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict will host a workshop on Jeff McMahan's recently published book, Killing in War, on October 9-10, 2009. The provisional schedule is here. Note that participation is by invitation only; if you are interested in attending, you should contact the Institute. Here's the idea:
Killing in War distils and develops a series of powerful arguments about the morality of war proposed over the last fifteen years, advocating a wholesale revision of conventional thinking on the just war. This workshop brings together some of the leading moral, political and legal philosophers in the field, to respond to McMahan's arguments, and present their own views of what justifies killing in war.