Symposium: Jeff McMahan’s Killing in War

A recent issue of Ethics (Vol. 122, no. 1, October 2011) contains a symposium on Jeff McMahan’s Killing in War. Contents include:

• Seth Lazar, Introduction
• Cheyney Ryan, Democratic Duty and the Moral Dilemmas of Soldiers
• Yitzhak Benbaji, The Moral Power of Soldiers to Undertake the Duty of Obedience
• David Rodin, Justifying Harm
• John Gardner & François Tanguay-Renaud, Desert and Avoidability in Self-Defense
• Jeff McMahan, Duty, Obedience, Desert, and Proportionality in War: A Response