Ethics Matters in War: Cecile Fabre and Jeff McMahan

Ethics Matters in War

Thursday 13 February; 6.30-8pm

Hong Kong Theatre; Clement House; LSE

Cecile Fabre; Professor of Political Philosophy;

University of Oxford

Jeff McMahan; Professor of Philosophy; Rutgers University

Chair: Gabriel Wollner; Assistant Professor; Department

of Philosophy; Logic and Scientific Method; LSE

and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow

The 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of World War I

reminds us of the importance of ethics in war. Under what

conditions may states wage war on each other? And

what are the moral principles governing the conduct of

war? Cecile Fabre and Jeff McMahan will argue that

traditional answers to these questions fail to convince:

Traditional just war theory stands in need of revision and

the role of ethics in war needs to be reconsidered