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Lying language, knowledge, ethics, and politics
- Title
- Lying [electronic resource] : language, knowledge, ethics, and politics / edited by Eliot Michaelson and Andreas Stokke.
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Available Online
Details
- Series Statement
- Engaging philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Engaging philosophy.
- Lying (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I : Language -- Part II : Knowledge -- Part III : Ethics -- Part IV : Politics -- Part V : Appendix.
- LCCN
- 2018951529
- OCLC
- ssj0002152185
- Title
- Lying [electronic resource] : language, knowledge, ethics, and politics / edited by Eliot Michaelson and Andreas Stokke.
- Imprint
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 320 pages)
- Series
- Engaging philosophyEngaging philosophy.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Summary
- Lying: Language, Knowledge, Ethics, and Politics is the first dedicated collection of philosophical essays on the emerging topic of lying. While philosophers have been thinking about lying for several thousand years, only recently has this topic emerged as a sustained locus of inquiry, one which has proved equally of interest to philosophers of language, epistemologists, ethicists, and political philosophers. The essays in this volume embrace the inter-subdisciplinary nature of this topic, breaking new methodological ground in exploring the ways that a better understanding of language can inform the study of knowledge, ethics, or politics - and vice versa. Some of the more specific questions explored in this volume include: How can we lie when it is unclear what exactly we believe, or when we have contradictory beliefs? Can corporations lie, and if so how? Is lying always wrong, or always at least prima facie wrong? What can one learn from a liar? And can we lie to mindless machines?
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- Ebook version: 0191866792 9780191866791 (OCoLC)1048940031