Hugo Adam Bedau

Biographic Data

ID274272
NAMEHugo Adam Bedau
GIVEN NAMESHugo Adam
FAMILY NAMEBedau
SIGNATUREBEDAU H A
AFFILIATIONSTufts University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX3

  • Current issues and enduring questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, With Readings

    Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Adam BedauBOOKCurrent issues and enduring…2014

    Extensive resource for argument, persuasive writing, and rigorous critical thinking

  • Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    Hugo Adam Bedau, Paul G CassellBOOKDebating the Death Penalty2004

    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and philosophers--to debate the death penalty…

  • Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition

    Open AccessAndrew Rutherford, Robert Ferris et al.BOOKCapital Punishment2004

    What are the critical factors that determine whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory but in reality rarely invoke it? By asking these questions, the editors hope to isolate the core issues that influence the formulation of legislation so that they can be incorporated into strategies for advising governments considering changes to their policy on capital punishme…

  • L'argument d'interférence minimale contre la peine capitale

    Hugo Adam BedauARTICLERevue Philosophique de Louvain2003

    Adam Bedau Hugo, Autenne Alexia. L'argument d'interférence minimale contre la peine capitale. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 101, n°1, 2003. pp. 138-150

  • Civil Disobedience In Focus

    Hugo Adam BedauBOOKCivil Disobedience In Focus2002

  • Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States

    Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Helen Prejean et al.ARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion2001

  • "Anarchical Fallacies": Bentham's Attack on Human Rights

    Hugo Adam BedauARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly2000

    For those interested in human rights, the year 1998 deserves to be remembered for at least two convergent reasons. Two hundred and fifty years ago, in 1748, Jeremy Bentham was born in London, and in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 (hereinafter United Nations "Declaration") was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. Thus in 1998 we celebrated two major anniversaries, the birth of an important and influe…

  • The Persistence of Intuitionism

    Stan Van Hooft, Hugo Adam Bedau et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1999

  • Making Mortal Choices

    Hugo Adam BedauBOOKMaking Mortal Choices1997

    This book demonstrates the usefulness of “casuistry”, or “the method of cases” in arriving at moral decisions. It examines well-known cases that compel us to consider questions about who ought to survive when not all can. By doing so, we learn something about how we actually reason concerning such life and death situations, as well as about how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life.

  • Jim and the Indians in the Jungle Clearing

    Hugo Adam BedauCHAPTERMaking Mortal Choices1997

    This chapter discusses a fictional case meant to show problems with utilitarianism: Jim comes upon a group of Indians held at gunpoint by soldiers, who plan to kill them to set an example. Jim is given a choice: kill one Indian and the others will live, or refuse, and all will be killed. The author notes that the utilitarian response to such a situation is not obvious; he concludes that the utilitarian could not easily provide Jim with useful adv…

  • Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry

    Hugo Adam BedauBOOKMaking Mortal Choices1996

    Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of 'casuistry' or 'the method of cases' in arriving at moral decisions. He examines well-known cases that compel us to consider questions about who ought to survive when not all can, and shows how we ought to reason.

  • American Populism and the Death Penalty: Witnesses at an Execution1

    Open AccessHugo Adam BedauARTICLEThe Howard Journal of Criminal…1994

    The currently popular status of the death penalty in the United States is examined in three respects: the eagerness of surviving family members to witness the execution of the murderer of their loved one, the controversy over whether executions ought to be shown ‘live’ on television, and the newly authorised used of victim‐impact statements in the sentencing phase of capital trials

  • The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law

    Hugo Adam Bedau, William A SchabasARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1994References: 1

    The European regional system of human rights emerged following the Second World War, and many of its instruments were drafted at the same time as those of the United Nations, indeed, often by the same individuals.One of the European system's exceptional features is its highly developed implementation mechanism built around the European Court of Human Rights.This body interprets and applies the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fun…

  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    Hugo Adam Bedau, Jack DonnellyARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1992Cited by: 6

  • The Realm of Rights

    Hugo Adam Bedau, Judith Jarvis ThomsonARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1992

  • The Myth of Infallibility: A Reply to Markman and Cassell

    Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael L RadeletARTICLEStanford Law Review1988Cited by: 1

  • Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases

    Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael L RadeletARTICLEStanford Law Review1987Cited by: 12

  • The Death Penalty in America

    Hugo Adam BedauARTICLEMichigan Law Review1983

    In The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject, provides a comprehensive source-book on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well. No mere revision of the third edition of The Death Penalty in America (1982) this volume brings together an entirely new selection of 40 essays and includes updated statistical and re…

  • The Penalty of Death.Thorsten Sellin

    Hugo Adam BedauARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1982

  • Soundness of Mind and 'Mental Setting'

    Hugo Adam Bedau, Herbert Fingarette et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1980

    Book reviewed in this article: Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility. By Herbert Fingarette and Ann Fingarette Hasse

  • Case Studies in Bioethics: A Condemned Man's Last Wish: Organ Donation & a 'Meaningful' Death

    Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael ZeikARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1979

  • Social Justice And Social Institutions

    Open AccessHugo Adam Bedau, Philosophy Documentation CenterARTICLEMidwest Studies in Philosophy1978

  • Rough Justice: The Limits of Novel Defenses

    Hugo Adam BedauARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1978

    In the search for more environmentally friendly processes, the\nuse of micellar structures opens up a range of new\npossibilities. One of the most exciting applications is the\nincorporation of homogeneous catalysts in micelles to\nperform reactions: micellar catalysis. Micellar catalysis can\nbe used to perform for example epoxidation reactions. In this\nway organic solvents, in which epoxidations are usually\nperformed, are replaced by aqueous …

  • The Courts, the Constitution, and Capital Punishment

    Charles R Tittle, Hugo Adam BedauARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1978

  • The Right to Die by Firing Squad

    Hugo Adam BedauARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1977