The Absolute Violation
Why Torture Must Be Prohibited
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2008
- Category
- Epistemology, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773534223
- Publish Date
- Jul 2008
- List Price
- $110.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773534513
- Publish Date
- Jul 2008
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773578289
- Publish Date
- Jul 2008
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
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.