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Hugo Bedau

Philosophy

#4534

World Rank

#7092

Historical Rank

#1308

USA Rank

Ethics

#281

World Rank

#332

Historical Rank

#106

USA Rank

Logic

#5109

World Rank

#6473

Historical Rank

#867

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Hugo Adam Bedau was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty scholar" by Stuart Taylor Jr., who has quoted Bedau as saying "I'll let the criminal justice system execute all the McVeighs they can capture, provided they'd sentence to prison all the people who are not like McVeigh."

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Hugo Bedau's Published Works

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Published Works

The Realm of Rights (1992) (318)
On Civil Disobedience (1961) (299)
Miscarriages Of Justice In Potentially Capital Cases (1987) (223)
The Death Penalty in America (1983) (132)
The death penalty in America : current controversies (1997) (126)
In Spite Of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases (1992) (103)
On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993 (1993) (78)
The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law (1994) (57)
Retribution and the Theory of Punishment (1987) (38)
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument (1993) (36)
Civil Disobedience in Focus (1991) (35)
Death Is Different: Studies in the Morality, Law, and Politics of Capital Punishment (1987) (34)
Making decisions: A multidisciplinary introduction (1984) (33)
The Execution of the Innocent (1998) (30)
Civil disobedience : theory and practice (1969) (29)
Victimless Crimes: Two Sides of a Controversy. (1974) (26)
Complementarity in quantum mechanics: A logical analysis (1961) (25)
Bentham's Utilitarian Critique of the Death Penalty (1983) (24)
Debating the death penalty : should America have capital punishment? : the experts on both sides make their best case (2004) (24)
Capital punishment in the United States (1960) (21)
"Anarchical Fallacies": Bentham's Attack on Human Rights (2000) (21)
Death Is Different (1987) (21)
Civil Disobedience and Personal Responsibility for Injustice (1970) (20)
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS (1978) (20)
The death penalty in America : an anthology (1964) (17)
The Myth of Infallibility: A Reply to Markman and Cassell (1988) (15)
Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument with Readings (1987) (14)
Deterrence and the Death Penalty: A Reconsideration (1970) (14)
Compensatory Justice and the Black Manifesto (1972) (13)
The Courts, the Constitution, and Capital Punishment (1977) (11)
Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (1972) (10)
Justice And Equality (1971) (9)
Killing as Punishment: Reflections on the Death Penalty in America (2004) (8)
The minimal invasion argument against the death penalty (2002) (8)
Why Do We Have the Rights We Do? (1984) (8)
COMPLEMENTARITY AND THE RELATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION (1974) (8)
Egalitarianism and the Idea of Equality (2017) (6)
Capital Punishment: Abolishing the death penalty in the United States: an analysis of institutional obstacles and future prospects (2004) (6)
From Critical Thinking to Argument: A Portable Guide (2004) (6)
Bentham's Theory of Punishment: Origin and Content (2004) (5)
Feinberg's Liberal Theory of Punishment (2001) (5)
The Death Penalty as a Deterrent: Argument and Evidence (1970) (5)
How to Argue about the Death Penalty (1991) (4)
Gregg v. Georgia and the “new” death penalty (1985) (4)
Physical Interventions to Alter Behavior in a Punitive Environment: (1975) (4)
The 1964 Death Penalty Referendum in Oregon (1980) (3)
A social philosopher looks at the death penalty. (1967) (3)
Making Mortal Choices (1997) (3)
The New Casuistry (2017) (3)
Military service and moral obligation (1971) (3)
The right to die by firing squad. (1977) (2)
Current Issues and Enduring Questions: Methods and Models of Argument (1991) (2)
American Populism and the Death Penalty: Witnesses at an Execution1 (1994) (2)
Book Review:Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf John B. Carroll (1957) (2)
Witness to a Persecution: The Death Penalty and the Dawson Five (1983) (2)
Berger's Defense of the Death Penalty: How Not to Read the Constitution (1983) (2)
Death Penalty, Overview (2008) (2)
Abstract of Comments (1976) (2)
Social Justice: What It Is and Why It Matters (1982) (1)
Book Reviews : Condemned to Die: Life under Sentence of Death, Robert Johnson, Pp. 190. New York, Elsevier, 1981 (1982) (1)
INEQUALITY – HOW MUCH AKD WHY?; (1975) (1)
A Concluding Note (1970) (1)
Case Studies in Bioethics: A Condemned Man's Last Wish: Organ Donation & a 'Meaningful' Death (1979) (1)
Revolutionary Theory, Revolutionary Non-Violence and Revolutionary Rights (1976) (1)
Ethical Decision Making and a Primitive Model of Rules (1986) (1)
The Speluncean Explorers and the Death of Roger Whetmore (1997) (1)
Jim and the Indians in the Jungle Clearing (1997) (1)
Conceptual Thinking: A Logical Inquiry. Stephan Körner (1957) (1)
Book Review:For Capital Punishment: Crime and the Morality of the Death Penalty. Walter Berns (1980) (0)
Some Hypotheses about Capital Punishment and Lynching (2008) (0)
The Precarious Sovereignty of Rights (1997) (0)
Reflections on Psychiatry and the Death Penalty (1992) (0)
Countertheses: Law and society: Necessities, impossibilities, and obscurities (1970) (0)
A Retributive Theory of the Pardoning Power (1993) (0)
Book Reviews : Capital Punishment, Thorsten Sellin, ed. Pp. ix, 200. New York, Harper & Row, 1967. $3.50 (paper (1968) (0)
In Spite of Meese (1994) (0)
Book Review:Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950 Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1958) (0)
Announcements and calls for papers (1998) (0)
The execution of innocence (1998) (0)
What We Write about When We Write about the Death Penalty: A Review of Recent Books and Literature on Capital Punishment (1999) (0)
8. The Eighth Amendment, Human Dignity, and the Death Penalty (2020) (0)
Language, Thought & Culture. Paul Henle (1961) (0)
Book review (1988) (0)
CRIMINOLOGY DETERRENCE AND THE DEATH PENALTY : A RECONSIDERATION (2017) (0)
Genocide in Vietnam?: The line between legal argument and moral judgment (1974) (0)
Book Review:The Psychology of Thought and Judgment Donald M. Johnson (1958) (0)
Publications received (2008) (0)
The philosophical doctrines in Tertullian's De Anima. (1951) (0)
Soundness of Mind and 'Mental Setting'@@@Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility (1980) (0)
Compensatory justice: cases and principles (1973) (0)
The Penalty of Death.Thorsten Sellin (1982) (0)
More Essays in Legal Philosophy. Edited by Summers Robert S.. (University of California Press, 1971. Pp. vii, 161. $6.50.) (1973) (0)
Revolution and Philosopliical Theory (1976) (0)
KIMBERLEY BROWNLEE FEATURES OF A PARADIGMCASE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE* (2004) (0)
The Limits of Utilitarianism and Beyond (1985) (0)
On Human Thinking. K. W. Monsarrat (1957) (0)
The Future of the Death Penalty in America. (1988) (0)
EQUALITY. By John Wilson. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1966. Pp. 216. 12/6. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. $4.75. (1967) (0)
Hardin's Utilitarianism (1992) (0)
A condemned man's last wish: organ donation & a 'meaningful' death. Commentary. (1979) (0)
15. Free Speech, the Right to Listen, and Disruptive Interference (1975) (0)
J. L. AUSTIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS (1965) (0)
A REPLY TO HUGO BEDAU ON " DEATH PENALTIES " 865 death penalties (0)
Dr. Bedau Replies (1967) (0)
The Right to Life in International Lau (1988) (0)
Ethics and the Gulf War: Religion, Rhetoric, and Righteousness, by Kenneth L. Vaux 187 pages, references, indices. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. $44 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8133-1459-3 (1993) (0)
17. Reply to Alan Pasch (1975) (0)
Seaman Holmes and the Sinking of the William Brown (1997) (0)
Logic and psychology. (1958) (0)
The Persistence of Intuitionism (1999) (0)
Rough justice: the limits of novel defenses. (1978) (0)
Some caveats on religious semantics (1966) (0)
The Issue of Capital Punishment (1967) (0)
Anarchism: A Theoretical Analysis: By Ritter Alan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. vii + 187. $27.50.) (1981) (0)
Furman's Wake In The Land Of Bean and Cod (1973) (0)
JAMES AVERY JOYCE. Capital Punishment: A World View. Pp. 288. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1961. $5.00 (1962) (0)
Book Reviews : Sex, Drugs, Death and the Law: An Essay on Human Rights and Overcriminalization, David A. J. Richards, Pp. 316. Totowa, New Jersey, Rowman and Littlefield, 1982. $26.95 (1983) (0)

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