Brecher Torture and the Ticking Bomb

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-119-43136-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series

This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself toHarvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversialarguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and itslegalisation.
* Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer onthe view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terrorneeds urgently to be countered
* Takes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitariangrounds
* Timely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-freestyle
* Forms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell PublicPhilosophy series

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brecher, Bob

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
1 Introduction 1
What is Torture? 3
Dershowitz on Interrogational Torture 6
Why Write about Torture? 8
The Agenda 11
2 The Fantasy of the Ticking Bomb Scenario 14
Dershowitz's Argument and the Ticking Bomb 14
Who Tortures? 21
Effectiveness and Time 24
Knowledge and Necessity 31
The Ticking Bomb Scenario: Conclusion 38
3 The Consequences of Normalizing Interrogational Torture 40
Some Clarifications 41
Three Positive Claims about the Consequences of Legalizing Interrogational Torture 52
The Institutionalization of Interrogational Torture 57
A Torturous Society 72
4 Torture, Death and Philosophy 75
Torture 76
Torture, Death and Interrogation 79
Why No Decent Society Can Torture 84
Torture, the "War on Terror" and Intellectual Irresponsibility 85
But What if Torture Really is the Only Possible Way to Avoid Catastrophe? 86
Two Final Points 88
Notes 89
Bibliography 109
Index 117

Über Autor(innen)

Bob Brecher is Reader in Moral Philosophy at the University of Brighton, UK and Director of its Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics. He is the author of two previous books, Anselm's Argument: the Logic of Divine Existence and Getting What You Want?: a Critique of Liberal Morality (1998). He has published widely in ethics and social and political philosophy and was the founding editor of the journal Res Publica.