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Philosophy Epistemology

The Absolute Violation

Why Torture Must Be Prohibited

by (author) Richard S. Matthews

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2008
Category
Epistemology, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773534223
    Publish Date
    Jul 2008
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773534513
    Publish Date
    Jul 2008
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773578289
    Publish Date
    Jul 2008
    List Price
    $110.00

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Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported.

About the author

Richard Matthews is assistant professor of philosophy, Mount Allison University.

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