Tag: Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

  • Drones in Theory and in Practice

    Drones in Theory and in Practice

    Reviewed in this essay: Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, edited by Bradley J. Strawser, Oxford University Press, 2013.  Academic philosophers working on topics in applied ethics, such as drone usage, insist on distinguishing between permissibility in theory and permissibility in practice. In claiming that current U.S. drone policies are impermissible in practice,…