Helen Frowe is Wallenberg Academy Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Stockholm, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. She is the author of The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction (Routledge, 2011), and co-editor of How We Fight: Ethics in War (OUP, 2014).

Defensive Killing is a scintillating exemplar of contemporary moral philosophy. Though its conclusions are at times bracing, Frowe's subtlety and intellectual honesty are unmatched ... It is a pathbreaking contribution not only to the ethics of war, but to deontological moral theory.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Threats and Bystanders 2: Killing Innocent Threats 3: Moral Responsibility and Liability to Defensive Harm 4: Liability and Necessity 5: War and Self-Defence 6: Non-Combatant Liability 7: Non-Combatant Immunity 8: Implications and Objections Bibliography Index

Helen Frowe is Wallenberg Academy Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Stockholm, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. She is the author of The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction (Routledge, 2011), and co-editor of How We Fight: Ethics in War (OUP, 2014).

Defensive Killing is a scintillating exemplar of contemporary moral philosophy. Though its conclusions are at times bracing, Frowe's subtlety and intellectual honesty are unmatched ... It is a pathbreaking contribution not only to the ethics of war, but to deontological moral theory.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Threats and Bystanders 2: Killing Innocent Threats 3: Moral Responsibility and Liability to Defensive Harm 4: Liability and Necessity 5: War and Self-Defence 6: Non-Combatant Liability 7: Non-Combatant Immunity 8: Implications and Objections Bibliography Index