Jonathan Quong is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Southern California. He taught previously at the University of Manchester. He is an associate editor for Philosophy & Public Affairs, an associate editor for Ethics, and an area editor for Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
Quong defends a powerful account of the grounds and conditions
under which an agent may justifiably inflict serious harm on
another person.
*Cecile Fabre, Criminal Law and Philosophy*
The Morality of Defensive Force offers a rich and challenging
account of the ethics of self-defence from one of the world's
leading theorists of defensive harm. Quong's lively, lucid and
imaginative prose is a joy to read ... this book is surely
essential reading for anyone working on the ethics of harming and
related topics.
*Helen Frowe, Stockholm University*
Quong's brilliant book is distinguished by its great originality
and creativity ... Quong's careful and rigorous arguments are
important contributions not just to our understanding of the
morality of defense but also to a wide range of general issues in
moral philosophy.
*Jeff McMahan, Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy,
University of Oxford*
Jonathan Quong is one of the very best moral and political
philosophers working in the world today. His distinctive and
carefully developed work on self-defence has already had a profound
impact on the field. His book, which draws together and develops
this work, is an outstanding achievement that will have lasting
significance in debates about some of the most important
philosophical and practical questions that we face.
*Victor Tadros, Warwick University*
Among its many virtues, The Morality of Defensive Force offers a
sustained and powerful critique of the moral responsibility
account.
*Michael Otsuka, Criminal Law and Philosophy*
The Morality of Defensive Force is packed with forceful, novel
arguments. It will no doubt become a cornerstone of work on the
justifications and limits of defensive harm. It strikes a great
balance between being accessible to those who want to pick it up
for a particular topic—for example, those interested only in the
necessity condition, the bearing of evidence on rights, or the
means principle—and at the same time being a rewarding,
well-integrated read.
*Joseph Bowen, Ethics*
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