"T. A. Cavanaugh articulates and defends double-effect reasoning (DER), also known as the principle of double effect. Cavanaugh here offers the first book-lengt

Philosophers and ethicists debate this controversial moral principle (including actions, intentions, consequences, unintended consequenses, intentional-unintent

This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics. Written from a non-theological perspective, it makes

The principle of double effect has a long history, from scholastic disputations about self-defense and scandal to current debates about terrorism, torture, euth