Drones and Responsibility

Ezio Di Nucci is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Copenhagen, having previously taught at the University of Edinburgh (where he received his PhD in 2008), the University of Stirling, University College Dublin and the University of Duisburg-Essen (where he received his Habilitation in 2014). Ezio works mainly in ethics, bioethics and the philosophy of action. Filippo Santoni de Sio is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at Delft University of Technology. He received his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Turin in 2008. He has already published one monograph, one edited collection and more than thirty papers on moral and legal responsibility, the ethics of cognitive enhancement, and robot ethics. He is co-founder and secretary of the International Society for Responsible Robotics.

• Drones and Responsibility: Mapping the Field PART I Drones and Legal Responsibility 1 Autonomous Drones and Individual Criminal Responsibility 2 State and Individual Responsibility for Targeted Killings by Drones PART II State Responsibility and the Use of Drones 3 Autonomous Killer Robots are Probably Good News 4 Moral Integrity and Remote-Controlled Killing: A Missing Perspective 5 State Responsibility and Drone Operators Design and Sociotechnical Perspectives 6 The Threshold of Killing Drones: The Modular Turing Imitation Game 7 Delegation and Responsibility: A Human–Machine Perspective 8 Civilizing Drones by Design PART IV Drones and Moral Responsibility 9 Drones, Automated Targeting, and Moral Responsibility 10 Drones @ Combat: Enhanced Information Warfare and Three Moral Claims of Combat Drone Responsibility 11 Autonomous Killer Drones