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Tomlin, Patrick (2019) Subjective proportionality. Ethics : An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 129 (2). pp. 254-283. doi:10.1086/700031 ISSN 0014-1704.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/700031
Abstract
Philosophers writing about proportionality in self-defense and war will often assume that defensive agents have full knowledge about the threat that they face and the defensive options available to them. But no actual defensive agents possess this kind of knowledge. How, then, should we make proportionality decisions under uncertainty? The natural answer is that we should move from comparing the harm we will do with the good we will achieve to comparing expected harm with expected good. I argue that this simple calculation is flawed, and I begin to develop a more sophisticated account of “subjective proportionality.”
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Proportionality (Ethics), Objectivism (Philosophy) , Subjectivity , Uncertainty | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Ethics : An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy | |||||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | |||||||||
ISSN: | 0014-1704 | |||||||||
Official Date: | January 2019 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 129 | |||||||||
Number: | 2 | |||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 254-283 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/700031 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Re-use Statement: | © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Accepted for publication to Ethics : An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy on 2018/06/2018 | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 July 2018 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 January 2020 | |||||||||
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