Terrorism: A Philosophical Enquiry

ANNE SCHWENKENBECHER is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University, School of Arts, Western Australia. She has previously held positions at the University of Melbourne and at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her main research interests are in the ethics of war and terrorism, the morality of groups and the ethics of climate change.

• Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: DEFINING 'TERRORISM' On The Current Debate On Defining Terrorism What Is Terrorism? PART II: ETHICS OF TERRORISM OR CAN TERRORISM EVER BE PERMISSIBLE? Innocents and Non-Innocents Terrorism Against Non-Innocents Terrorism Against Innocents Collateral Damage Concluding Remarks References Index