Research Catalog

Title

Privacy / edited by Steven M. Cahn and Carissa Véliz.

Publication

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023]

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Additional Authors

• Cahn, Steven M.
• Véliz, Carissa

Description

xii, 196 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Perhaps the most striking thing about the right to privacy is that nobody seems to have any very clear idea what it is. Consider, for example, the familiar proposal that the right to privacy is the right "to be let alone." On the one hand, this doesn't seem to take in enough. The police might say, "We grant we used a special X-ray device on Smith, so as to be able to watch him through the walls of his house; we grant we trained an amplifying device on him so as to be able to hear everything he said; but we let him strictly alone: we didn't touch him, we didn't even go near him-our devices operate at a distance." Anyone who believes there is a right to privacy would presumably believe that it has been violated in Smith's case; yet he would be hard put to ex-plain precisely how, if the right to privacy is the right to be let alone. And on the other hand, this account of the right to privacy lets in far too much. If I hit Jones on the head with a brick I have not let him alone. Yet, while hitting Jones on the head with a brick is surely violating some right of Jones', doing it should surely not turn out to violate his right to privacy. Else, where is this to end? Is every violation of a right a violation of the right to privacy? It seems best to be less ambitious, to begin with at least. I suggest, then, that we look at some specific, imaginary cases in which people would say, "There, in that case, the right to privacy has been violated," and ask ourselves precisely why this would be said, and what, if anything, would justify saying it"--

Series Statement

Wiley Blackwell readings in philosophy ; 16

Uniform Title

• Privacy (John Wiley & Sons)
• Wiley Blackwell readings in philosophy ; 16.

Subject

Privacy, Right of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The right to privacy / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Thomson on privacy / Thomas Scanlon -- Why privacy is important / James Rachels -- Privacy and the limits of law / Ruth Gavison -- Privacy, morality, and the law / W.A. Parent -- Concealment and exposure / Thomas Nagel -- The liberal value of privacy / Boudewign de Bruin -- What is the right to privacy? / Andrei Marmor -- Privacy rights and public information / Benedict Rumbold and James Wilson -- Privacy and the importance of 'getting away with it' / Cressida Gaukroger -- Privacy in social media / Andrei Marmor -- Governing privacy / Carissa Véliz.

Call Number

JFE 23-939

ISBN

• 9781119932550
• 1119932556
• 9781119932567 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781119932574 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022032868

OCLC

1341845656

Title

Privacy / edited by Steven M. Cahn and Carissa Véliz.

Publisher

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Wiley Blackwell readings in philosophy ; 16

Wiley Blackwell readings in philosophy ; 16.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cahn, Steven M., editor.

Véliz, Carissa, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Privacy (John Wiley & Sons) Privacy Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2023 9781119932567 (DLC) 2022032869

Research Call Number

JFE 23-939