Saba Bazargan-Forward

UC San Diego

Associate Professor

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, CA 92093-0119

United States

http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/people/faculty-sites/sbazargan.html

University of San Diego School of Law

Affiliate Professor

5998 Alcala Park

San Diego, CA 92110-2492

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

20

DOWNLOADS

1,224

TOTAL CITATIONS

3

Ideas:
“  I work primarily in normative ethics, with a focus on individual accountability for cooperatively committed wrongs. I have recently published a book on that topic, entitled 'Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability'. I also work on war ethics, as well as on a variety of other issues, including: the moral analysis of coercion, the grounds for associative duties, and the morality of benefitting from injustice. My paper ‘Moral Coercion’ was featured in the Philosopher’s Annual Top Ten.  ”

Scholarly Papers (20)

1.

Complicity

Routledge Handbook on Collective Intentionality, Eds. Marija Jankovic, Kirk Ludwig. Routledge University Press, 2017, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-316
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2017
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complicity, criminal law, liability, culpability, collective responsibility, proxy, authority, overdetermination, over-determination

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Moral Coercion

Philosophers’ Imprint, Vol. 14(11), pp. 1-18, 2014
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2017
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Coercion, Moral Coercion, Duress, Hostages, Blackmail, Paradox of Blackmail, Extortion, Human Shields

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Noncombatant Immunity and War-Profiteering

In Oxford Handbook on the Ethics of War, Eds. Helen Frowe, Seth Lazar. Oxford University Press 2017.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Mar 2017
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non-combatant immunity, war-profiteers, unjust enrichment, compensation, restitution, just war theory, combatants, civilians

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Vesting Agent-Relative Permissions in a Proxy

Law and Philosophy, 37(6), 2018, pp. 671-695, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-375
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
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agent-relativity, agent-neutrality, bodyguards, proxies, self-defense, disability, agent-centered

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The Permissibility of Aiding and Abetting Unjust Wars

Journal of Moral Philosophy, Volume 8, Number 4, 2011, pp. 513-529.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2017
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war, just war theory, humanitarian intervention

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Dignity, Self-Respect, and Bloodless Invasions

'Who Should Die?: The Ethics of Killing in War'. Eds.: Bradley Jay Strawser, Ryan Jenkins, Michael Robillard, Oxford University Press 2018
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Jan 2018
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just war theory, dignity, self-respect, oppression, self-defense

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Varieties of Contingent Pacifism in War

In How We Fight, Eds. Helen Frowe; Gerald Lang. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2017
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Just War Theory, Pacifism, Contingent Pacifism, Proportionality, Civilians, War

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Compensation & Proportionality in War

Weighing Lives in War, Eds., Claire Finkelstein, Larry May, Jens David Ohlin. Oxford University Press, 2017; ISBN: 9780198796183 , San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-314
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2017
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war, just war theory, compensation, civilians, colateral harm, proportionality

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The Identity-Enactment Account of Associative Duties

Philosophical Studies, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/s11098-018-1129-0
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Jul 2018
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Associative Duties, Agent-Centered Prerogatives, Practical Identity, Special Ties, Parental Duties, Familial Duties

10.

Complicitous Liability in War

Philosophical Studies, (2013) 165:177-195
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2017
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Complicity, War, Moral Equality of Combatants, Just War Theory

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Defensive Liability Without Culpability

Chapter 4 in: The Ethics of Self-Defense, Eds. Christian Coons, Michael E. Weber. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Mar 2017
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self-defense, liability, culpability, responsibility, excuse, duress, coercion tort

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Proportionality, Territorial Occupation, and Enabled Terrorism

Law and Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, pp 435–457, July 2013
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2017
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Terrorism, Just War Theory, Proportionality, Civilian Immunity, Collateral Damage, Occupation

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Defensive Wars and the Reprisal Dilemma

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93(3), 2014, pp. 583-601.
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Mar 2017
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just war theory, compensation, force protection, self-defense, retribution, reprisals, just war theory

14.

Standards of Risk in War and Civil Life

The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict, Ed. Florian Demont. Palgrave, 2017., San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-315
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2017
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duty of care, war, civilians, just war theory, proportionality, collateral damage, expected welfare

15.

Morally Heterogeneous Wars

Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, 41(4), 2013, pp. 959-975.
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2017
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just war theory, Iran-Iraq war, pacifism, contingent pacifism, jus ad bellum

16.

Accountability and Intervening Agency: An Asymmetry between Upstream and Downstream Actors

Utilitas Vol. 29, No. 1
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Mar 2017
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liability, intervening agency, mediated agency, responsibility, compensation, causation

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Weighing Lives in War: Domestic versus Foreign

Cambridge Handbook on the Just War, Ed. Larry May. Cambridge University Press, 2018 (DOI: 10.1017/9781316591307.012)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Aug 2018
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just war theory, liability, proportionality, civilians, fiduciary duties, agent-relative permissions, self-defense

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Killing Minimally Responsible Threats

Ethics, Vol. 125, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Mar 2017
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responsibility, minimal responsibility, threats, defensive killing, liability, recklessness, culpability, defensive violence, excuse

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Ulterior Motives and Moral Injury in War

Moral Injury in the Humanities, Eds. Andrew I. Cohen, Kathryn McClymond. Routledge, 2023.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2024
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moral injury, guilt, shame, war, PTSD, soldiers, collective action, collective guilt, shame, authority

20.

Grounding the Beneficiary Pays Principle

Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Vol. 8, 2021
Posted: 03 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2022
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beneficiary, benefitting, compensation, labor, property, trespass, welfare, restitution