Speech Matters (eBook)

On Lying, Morality, and the Law

Seana Valentine Shiffrin (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5252-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Seana Valentine Shiffrin is professor of philosophy and the Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against lying and requires protection for free speech. This book makes a distinctive philosophical argument for the wrong of the lie and provides an original account of its difference from the wrong of deception.Drawing on legal as well as philosophical arguments, the book defends a series of notable claims-that you may not lie about everything to the "e;murderer at the door,"e; that you have reasons to keep promises offered under duress, that lies are not protected by free speech, that police subvert their mission when they lie to suspects, and that scholars undermine their goals when they lie to research subjects.Many philosophers start to craft moral exceptions to demands for sincerity and fidelity when they confront wrongdoers, the pressures of non-ideal circumstances, or the achievement of morally substantial ends. But Shiffrin consistently resists this sort of exceptionalism, arguing that maintaining a strong basis for trust and reliable communication through practices of sincerity, fidelity, and respecting free speech is an essential aspect of ensuring the conditions for moral progress, including our rehabilitation of and moral reconciliation with wrongdoers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.12.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
• Reihe/Serie: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Schlagworte: academic freedom • academic research • Accommodation • Accountability • Acquiescence • Adam Smith • Allegation • autobiographical lies • Autonomous Agent • Coercion • commercial speech • Communication • communicative ethics • compelled disclosure • Complaint • Consideration • content-discrimination • Contract • Contracts • Controversy • Convenience • counsel • credibility • Crime • Criticism • Cruel and unusual punishment • Cynicism (contemporary) • Deception • defamation • defendant • Deliberation • disaster • Discretion • discursive communication • distrust • Division of Labour • Duress • Effectiveness • Embarrassment • Employment • Equality • Etiquette • Exigent circumstance • Explanation • Externality • Falsity • Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 • fidelity • First Amendment to the United States Constitution • Fraud • Freedom of association • freedom of communication • freedom of speech • freedom of thought • good faith • Good standing • Governance • Guarantee • Harm • hostility • Immanuel Kant • Imprisonment • impunity • inference • Institution • Institutions • Intention (criminal law) • intimidation • Judith Jarvis Thomson • Jurisdiction • Law School • Lecture • Legal Doctrine • Legal remedy • Legislation • Legitimation • Lying • Misfeasance • Misrepresentation • moral agency • moral failure • moral imperfection • Morality • moral obligations • Moral progress • moral wrongs • Murderer at the Door • negligence • Negotiation • obstacle • Persuasion • Philosophy of Language • plaintiff • presumption • privacy • Promises • Prosecutor • Publication • puffery • punishment • qualified absolutism • Regulation • Requirement • research subjects • respect • result • rhetoric • Ronald Dworkin • Selective prosecution • Self-Defense • Self-Definition • Seminar • seriousness • Sincerity • Speech Act • Standing (law) • Statute • Stolen Valor Act • Suggestion • theory • thinker-based approach • Third Parties • Thought • Toleration • Tort • Truth • Tyler Burge • Uncertainty • United States v. Alvarez • Universities • Vulnerability (computing) • Waiver • Warranty • wrongdoing • wrongful deception
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5252-8 / 1400852528
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5252-9 / 9781400852529