''Torture and the Ticking Bomb'' is a 2007 book by

Bob Brecher Bob Brecher (born 1949) is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Brighton. He is known for his expertise on ethics and political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study ...

in which the author examines

ticking time bomb scenario The ticking time bomb scenario is a thought experiment that has been used in the ethics debate over whether interrogational torture can ever be justified. The scenario can be formulated as follows: Suppose that a person with knowledge of an immi ...

, provides arguments against justifying

torture Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons such as punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties. Some definitions are restricted to acts c ...

based on

consequentialist In ethical philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative ethics, normative, Teleology, teleological ethical theories that holds that the wikt:consequence, consequences of one's Action (philosophy), conduct are the ultimate basis for judgm ...

grounds and attacks

interrogational torture Interrogational torture is the use of torture to obtain information in interrogation, as opposed to the use of torture to force a person to make a confession regardless of whether it is true or false. Torture has been used throughout history durin ...

and its legalisation.

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Torture and the Ticking Bomb
2007 non-fiction books Ethics books Torture Wiley-Blackwell books {{ethics-book-stub