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This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the§emerging debate on autonomous weapons. Autonomous weapons are capable, once§programmed, of searching for and engaging a target without direct intervention§by a human operator. Critics of these weapons claim that 'taking the human§out-of-the-loop' represents a further step towards the de-humanisation of§warfare, while advocates of this type of technology contend that the power of§machine autonomy can potentially be harnessed in order to prevent war crimes.§This book provides a thorough and critical assessment of these two positions.§Written by a political philosopher at the forefront of the autonomous weapons§debate, the book clearly assesses the ethical and legal ramifications of§autonomous weapons, and presents a novel ethical argument against fully§autonomous weapons.§§

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Ethics and Autonomous Weapons
• Author: Alex Leveringhaus
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 131
• EAN: 9781137523600
• ISBN: 1137523603
• ID: 02935359
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 218 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. January 2015

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