Profs Helen Frowe & Derek Matravers: Stones and Lives: The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War

Helen Frowe is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Scholar at Stockholm University, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. She is the author of Defensive Killing (OUP, 2014), The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction (Routledge, 2011; 2015; 2022) and, with Derek Matravers, Stones and Lives: The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War (OUP, 2023). She is also co-editor of Heritage in War: Ethical Issues (OUP, 2023), Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War (OUP, 2018) and How We Fight: Ethics in War (OUP, 2014). Her book Help! The Ethics of Rescue is currently in press with OUP.

Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He has written Art and Emotion (OUP, 1998), Introducing Philosophy of Art: Eight Case Studies (Routledge, 2013); Fiction and Narrative (OUP, 2014); Empathy (Polity, 2017); and, with Helen Frowe, Stones and Lives: The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War (OUP, 2024). He is co-editor of Heritage in War: Ethical Issues (OUP, 2023), as well as several other collections, and is the author of numerous articles in aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. He edits, with Paloma Atencia-Linares, The British Journal of Aesthetics.

Delivered March 18, 2026