Table of Contents

Introduction and Précis
PART I: CONCEPTS
1: Lying
2: Deception and Related Concepts
PART II: MORAL THEORY
PART II A: NORMATIVE ETHICAL THEORY
3: Kant and the Absolute Prohibition against Lying
4: Act-Utilitarianism
5: Ross and Rule-Consequentialism
PART II B: MORAL REASONING
6: The Golden Rule and a Theory of Moral Reasoning
PART II C: THE IMPLICATIONS OF IIA AND IIB FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT LYING AND DECEPTION
7: The Partial Overlap/Convergence of Reasonable Views
PART III: APPLICATIONS
8: Deception and Withholding Information on Sales
9: Deception in Advertising
10: Bluffing and Deception in Negotiations
11: Honesty, Professionals, and the Vulnerability of the Public
12: Lying and Deception about Questions of War and Peace: Case Studies
13: Honesty, Conflicts, and the Telling of History: More Case Studies
14: Honesty as a Virtue
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Thomas L. Carson is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of two books, Value and the Good Life (University of Notre Dame Press) and The Status of Morality (D.Reidel), and is the co-editor of Morality and the Good Life (OUP) and Moral Relativism (OUP).

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Carson has threaded years of scholarship on this topic into a rich and coherent account. Two thumbs up!

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