Phillip Montague                             

                                                                     

 

Professor Emeritus

Department of Philosophy

Western Washington University
 

Ph.D, Stanford University 

 

Representative Publications

 

Punishment as Societal Defense (Lanham, MD:  Rowman and Littlefield, 1995).
 

 “Self-Defense and Choosing Between Lives,” Philosophical Studies, 40 (1981).


"Rights and Duties of Compensation," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 13 (1984).
 

"Infant Rights and the Morality of Infanticide," Nous, 23 (1989).
 

"Virtue Ethics, a Qualified Success Story," American Philosophical

Quarterly, 29 (1992). 
 

“Self-Defense and Innocence: Aggressors and Active Threats,” Utilitas, 12 (2000).
 

“When Rights Conflict,” Legal Theory, 7 (2001).

    “Blameworthiness, Vice, and the Objectivity of Morals,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 85
(2004).


“Self-Defense, Culpability, and Distributive ustice,” Law and Philosophy, 29 (2010).


"Stem Cell Research and the Problem of Embryonic Identity," The Journal of Ethics,  15 (2011.


"Defending Defensive Targeted Killings," in Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, and Andrew Altman (ed.) Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).



 

 

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Phillip.Montague@wwu.edu