Background
Wilkins, Burleigh Taylor was born on July 1, 1932 in Bridgetown, Virginia, United States. Son of Burleigh and Helen Marie (Taylor) Wilkins.
(The terrorist threat remains a disturbing issue for the e...)
The terrorist threat remains a disturbing issue for the early 1990s. This book explores whether terrorism can ever be morally justifiable and if so under what circumstances. Professor Burleigh Taylor Wilkins suggests that the popular characterisation of terrorists as criminals fails to acknowledge the reasons why terrorists resort to violence. It is argued that terrorism cannot be adequately understood unless the collective responsibility of organised groups, such as political states, for wrongs allegedly done against the groups which the terrorists represent is taken into account. Terrorism and Collective Responsibility provides an analysis of various models of collective responsibility, and it takes into account recent discussions of military responsibility and business ethics. The book also explores the problems that terrorism poses for the just war tradition. The arguments of prominent philosophers against terrorism are critically examined and the claim that terrorism necessarily violates the rights of innocent persons is considered. Wilkins sets forth an original definition of terrorism that is sure to provoke controversy.
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Wilkins, Burleigh Taylor was born on July 1, 1932 in Bridgetown, Virginia, United States. Son of Burleigh and Helen Marie (Taylor) Wilkins.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Duke University, 1952. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1954. Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1963.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1965.
He previously taught history at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia from 1956-1957. Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1957-1960. Philosophy at Princeton University (1960-1961, 1963) and at Rice University (1965-1967).
He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1968.
He has written a biography on Carl L. Becker, and books on the philosophies of Edmund Burke, Hegel, and Karl Popper.
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Member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Children: Brita Taylor, Carla Cowgill, Burleigh William.