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ISBN:
9780511520983
Series Statement:
Themes in the social sciences
Content:
Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in which people tell lies, how they are detected and sometimes exposed, and the consequences for the liars themselves, their dupes, and the wider society. The author provides examples from a number of cultures with distinctive religious and ethical traditions, and delineates domains where lying is the norm, domains that are ambiguous and the one domain (science) that requires truthtelling. He refers to experimental studies on children that show how, at an early age, they acquire the capactiy to lie and learn when it is appropriate to do so. He reviews how lying has been evaluated by moralists, examines why we do not regard novels as lies and relates the human capacity to lie to deceit among other animal species. He concludes that although there are, in all societies, good pragmatic reasons for not lying all the time, there are also strong reasons for lying some of the time
Content:
1. What is a lie? -- 2. Where lies are expected -- 3. Ambiguous domains -- 4. Science -- 5. Cultural diversity -- 6. Relations -- 7. Self-deception and connivance in deceit -- 8. Telling and detecting lies -- 9. Benign untruths: the discourse of fiction -- 10. Evaluations -- 11. Do we have to have lies?
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521453769
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521459785
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521453769
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511520983
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