Torture and the ticking bomb / / Bob Brecher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830441303321
• Autore: Brecher Robert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2007
• ISBN: 1-119-43136-0; 1-282-34843-4; 9786612348433; 0-470-69164-6; 1-280-93277-5; 9786610932771; 1-4051-6201-5; 0-470-69248-0; 1-4051-8202-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (134 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell public philosophy
• Disciplina: 363.2; 363.232
• Soggetti: Torture; Human rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-116) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Torture and the Ticking Bomb; Contents; Preface; 1: Introduction; What is Torture?; Dershowitz on Interrogational Torture; Why Write about Torture?; The Agenda; 2: The Fantasy of the Ticking Bomb Scenario; Dershowitz's Argument and the Ticking Bomb; Who Tortures?; Effectiveness and Time; Knowledge and Necessity; The Ticking Bomb Scenario: Conclusion; 3: The Consequences of Normalizing Interrogational Torture; Some Clarifi cations; Three Positive Claims about the Consequences of Legalizing Interrogational Torture; The Institutionalization of Interrogational Torture; A Torturous Society; 4: Torture, Death and PhilosophyTorture; Torture, Death and Interrogation; Why No Decent Society Can Torture; Torture, the ""War on Terror"" and Intellectual Irresponsibility; But What if Torture Really is the Only Possible Way to Avoid Catastrophe?; Two Final Points; Notes; ; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation.Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to be counteredTakes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian groundsTimely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free styleForms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell Public Philosophy series