TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shiffrin,Seana Valentine
TI  - Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law 
T2  - Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
SN  - 9780691157023
AV  - BJ1421 
U1  - 177.3 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adam Smith
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Murderer at the Door
KW  - Stolen Valor Act
KW  - United States v. Alvarez
KW  - academic freedom
KW  - academic research
KW  - accommodation
KW  - autobiographical lies
KW  - coercion
KW  - communication
KW  - communicative ethics
KW  - compelled disclosure
KW  - content-discrimination
KW  - contracts
KW  - deception
KW  - discursive communication
KW  - duress
KW  - equality
KW  - fidelity
KW  - freedom of communication
KW  - freedom of speech
KW  - freedom of thought
KW  - harm
KW  - institutions
KW  - lying
KW  - misrepresentation
KW  - moral agency
KW  - moral failure
KW  - moral imperfection
KW  - moral obligations
KW  - moral progress
KW  - moral wrongs
KW  - morality
KW  - promises
KW  - puffery
KW  - qualified absolutism
KW  - research subjects
KW  - self-definition
KW  - sincerity
KW  - thinker-based approach
KW  - third parties
KW  - truth
KW  - universities
KW  - wrongful deception
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852529
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400852529
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