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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introductory remarks: We never do just one thing; 1������Thou Shalt Not Kill; 2������The book's contents; 3������Double effect cases; Part 1 The Doctrine of Double Effect; Chapter 2 Definitions first: Classic formulations of the Doctrine; 1������Introduction; 2������Preliminaries; 3������Too many conditions?; 4������One final clarification: The��counterfactual test; 5������Conclusion; Chapter 3 Back to the beginning: Aristotle, Aquinas and the origins of double effect; 1������Introduction; 2������Aristotle; 3������Double effect; 4������Means and side effects.

5������Mixed actions and double effect6������Intended means, bad effects and the argument from marginally bad means; 7������Conclusion; Part 2 Double Effect in Theory; Chapter 4 The Trolley Problem; 1������Introduction; 2������Trolleys; 3������A dialectical asymmetry; 4������Self-sacrifice; 5������Conclusion; Chapter 5 An experimental approach to the permissibility of killing one to save five; 1������Introduction; 2������Thomson, Hauser and Huebner; 3������My own study; 4������Discussion; 5������Conclusion; Chapter 6 A theoretical problem with double effect: Closeness; 1������Introduction; 2������Bratman's three roles of intention; 3������Bennett's tight binding.

4������FitzPatrick on constitution5������Hills on actual intentions; 6������Delaney and intention consolidation; 7������Wedgwood on trolleys; 8������Masek and the strict definition of��intention; 9������Quinn's attempt to avoid the problem; 10������Conclusion; Chapter 7 Kamm, Kant and double effect; 1������Introduction; 2������'Because Of' means; 3������Loop and intention; 4������Different attitudes: In order to, because��of and despite; 5������Kant and Korsgaard; 6������Conclusion; Part 3 Double Effect in Practice; Chapter 8 The classic application of double effect: Collateral damages; 1������Introduction; 2������The thought-experiment.

3������Bratman and different options4������Same causal beliefs; 5������Different causal beliefs; 6������Structural similarity with the��Trolley��Problem; 7������The three roles of intention and the��Trolley Problem; 8������Historical closeness; 9������Conclusion; Chapter 9 An experimental approach to the distinction between intending and merely foreseeing; 1������Introduction; 2������My experiment; 3������Discussion; 4������Moral intuitions and double effect; 5������Conclusion; Chapter 10 Bioethical applications: The example of embryo loss and stem cell research; 1������Introduction; 2������Murphy's argument; 3������Double effect and embryo loss; 4������Conclusion.

Chapter 11 What shall i do? The Doctrine cannot tell us how we may permissibly act1������Introduction; 2������Thick act-types; 3������Closeness and thick act-types; 4������Conclusion; Chapter 12 Concluding remarks: Responsibility, character and Mends; 1������Introduction; 2������Duff on responsibility; 3������The moral correlate of sentencing; 4������Ends, Mends and Means; 5������Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Ethics Without Intention tackles the questions raised by difficult moral dilemmas by providing a critical analysis of double effect and its most common ethical and political applications. The book discusses the philosophical distinction between intended harm and foreseen but unintended harm. This distinction, which, according to the doctrine of double effect, makes a difference to the moral justification of actions, is widely applied to some of the most controversial ethical and political questions of our time: collateral damages in wars and acts of terrorism; palliative care, euthanasia, abor.

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