ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: NUCLEAR SECURITY
Volume 18
OBJECTIONS TO NUCLEAR DEFENCE
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OBJECTIONS TO NUCLEAR DEFENCE
PHILOSOPHERS ON DETERRENCE
Edited by Nigel Blake & Kay Pole
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Objections to Nuclear Defence.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Atomic weapons Moral and ethical aspects
Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Deterrence (Strategy)
Moral and ethical aspects Addresses, essays, lectures.
I. Blake, Nigel. II. Pole, Kay.
U264.025 1984 172 .42 84-4698
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Contents
Nigel Blake and Kay Pole
Anthony Kenny
Michael Dummett
Roger Ruston
John Krige
Kate Soper
Bernard Williams
Susan Khin Zaw
Rip Bulkeley
Andrew Belsey
Guide
Our great good fortune as editors was to be able to work with such material. The contributors wrote their essays more than a year ago; so, in addition to thanking them for the book we acknowledge their patience with gratitude. When our own patience was flagging and threatening to run out altogether we were each supported by our families our love and thanks to them. Thanks, too, to the many members of the Open University who commented on the project as a whole, and on some of the content in detail, notably in this respect Greg McLennan and Peter Wright.
We are grateful to Faber & Faber Publishers and Random House Inc for permission to reprint four lines from In Memory of W.B. Yeats by W.H. Auden, from The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings 19271939, edited by Edward Mendelson.
Andrew Belsey is Lecturer in Philosophy, University College, Cardiff; his main areas of interest are science and politics and the relations between them. He believes philosophy should combine rigour with concern for important practical issues. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Applied Philosophy.
Rip Bulkeley has taught philosophy at the University of Khartoum and the Open University. From 1980 to 1982 he worked in Oxfords Campaign ATOM, gave WEA courses in peace studies, and wrote pieces for Peace News, New Radiator, and END Bulletin, as well as unpublished papers on campaign strategy. He has contributed to CND The Way Ahead (eds Phil Bolsover and John Minnion), and is co-author of If at first you dont succeed fighting against the bomb in the 1950s and 1960s, International Socialism, Winter 1980. Until 1982 he was a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy.
Michael Dummett is Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford. He was fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 195079, and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1967. He chaired the unofficial Committee of Enquiry into events in Southall on 23 April 1979 (Report issued 1980). His publications include Frege: Philosophy of Language (1973), Immigration: where the Debate goes Wrong (1978), Catholicism and the World Order (1979), and Twelve Tarot Games (1980).
Anthony Kenny is Master of Balliol College, Oxford, where he was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy from 1963 to 1978. He has written books on Descartes and Wittgenstein and on a number of topics in philosophy of mind, notably Action, Emotion and Will, Will, Freedom and Power, and Free Will and Responsibility. His article Counterforce and Countervalue on nuclear deterrence, first published in the Clergy Review in 1962, has since been reprinted several times.
Susan Khin Zaw is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. She currently works in moral philosophy, treating the subject in an interdisciplinary manner. She has previously published papers in the philosophy of psychology and biology.
John Krige is the author of Science, Revolution and Discontinuity (1980), and has published about a dozen articles in scientific periodicals, as well as several on philosophy of science. He has discussed the dangers of the arms race with several large groups of sixth formers, notably those with an interest in science.
Roger Ruston is a Catholic priest of the Dominican Order who teaches moral theology at Blackfriars, Oxford. He is also a graduate student in the Department of International Relations at Oxford University. For several years he was a member of the Catholic Bishops Commission for International Justice and Peace and wrote a report for them on the morality of nuclear deterrence entitled Nuclear Deterrence: Right or Wrong? (1982). He has written a number of articles on political theology and belongs to Pax Christi.
Kate Soper is a writer, translator and part-time teacher of philosophy at the Polytechnic of North London. She is active in Lewes CND, and was until recently co-secretary of Brighton CND. She is the author of On Human Needs (1981) and currently writing a book on humanism. Publications on the issue of nuclear disarmament include an article in
