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Torture interrogation of terrorists : A theory of exceptions (with notes, cautions, and warnings)

In Timothy Shanahan (ed.), Philosophy 9/11: Thinking About the War on Terrorism. Open Court (2005)

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  1. Kant's cosmopolitan values and supreme emergencies.Thomas Mertens - 2007 - Journal of Social Philosophy 38 (2):222–241.
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  • Indecent Medicine: In Defense of the Absolute Prohibition against Physician Participation in Torture.Richard S. Matthews - 2006 - American Journal of Bioethics 6 (3):W34-W44.
    In a recent article, Gross argues that physicians in decent societies have a civic duty to aid in the torturing of suspected terrorists during emergency conditions. The argument presupposes a communitarian society in which considerations of common good override questions of individual rights, but it is also utilitarian. In the event that there is a ticking bomb and no other alternative available for defusing it, torture must be used, and physicians must play their part. In an earlier article, Jones also (...)
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  • The Kantian Case Against Torture.Peter Brian Barry - 2015 - Philosophy 90 (4):593-621.
    There is a decided consensus that Kantian ethics yields an absolutist case against torture – that torture is morally wrong and absolutely so. I argue that while thereisa Kantian case against torture, Kantian ethics does not clearly entail absolutism about torture. I consider several arguments for a Kantian absolutist position concerning torture and explain why none are sound. I close by clarifying just what the Kantian case against torture is. My contention is that while Kantian ethics does not support a (...)
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