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Speech Matters : On Lying, Morality, and the Law / Seana Valentine Shiffrin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series ; 4Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691157023
  • 9781400852529
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 177.3 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1421
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Lies and the Murderer Next Door -- Chapter Two. Duress and Moral Progress -- Chapter Three. A Thinker-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech -- Chapter Four. Lying and Freedom of Speech -- Chapter Five. Accommodation, Equality, and the Liar -- Chapter Six. Sincerity and Institutional Values -- Index
Summary: 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 "murderer at the door," 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Lies and the Murderer Next Door -- Chapter Two. Duress and Moral Progress -- Chapter Three. A Thinker-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech -- Chapter Four. Lying and Freedom of Speech -- Chapter Five. Accommodation, Equality, and the Liar -- Chapter Six. Sincerity and Institutional Values -- Index

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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 "murderer at the door," 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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