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Core Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Privacy

  • Offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the modern world
  • Explores core concepts of privacy as well as its application to important, everyday issues
  • Enables greater engagement with difficult questions about privacy

Part of the book series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (AMIN, volume 8)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction: Conceptualizing Privacy Harms and Values

    • Ann E. Cudd, Mark C. Navin
    Pages 1-13
  3. Privacy: Core Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. Privacy: Concept, Value, Right?

      • Alistair M. Macleod
      Pages 31-45
    3. The Nature and Value of Privacy

      • Steven P. Lee
      Pages 47-61
    4. Privacy and Responsibility

      • Mane Hajdin
      Pages 63-76
  4. Personal Information Privacy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
    2. Information, Privacy, and False Light

      • Pierre Le Morvan
      Pages 79-90
    3. Privacy, Public Space, and Personal Information

      • Richard T. De George
      Pages 107-120
    4. Privacy and Religious Exemptions

      • Mark C. Navin
      Pages 121-133
  5. Privacy in Different Contexts: Work, Sex, Family, and Crime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
    2. Privacy, Employment, and Dignity

      • John G. Francis, Leslie P. Francis
      Pages 207-218
    3. Privacy and Outing

      • Gordon A. Babst
      Pages 219-233

About this book

This book offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the modern world. It collects 16 papers that look at this essential topic from many facets, from the personal to the technological, from the philosophical to the legal. The contributors examine such issues as the value of privacy protection, the violation of spreading personal falsehoods, the digital rights of children, an individual's right to be forgotten from internet search engines, and more.

The organization of the volume helps provide a nuanced understanding of this often controversial topic. Coverage starts with key concepts before moving on to explore personal information privacy and the impact of new technologies. Next, the papers consider privacy in different contexts. These include work, sex, family, crime, and religion. This structure enables greater engagement with the difficult questions about privacy. Readers will gain deep insight into the core concepts of privacy as well as its application to everyday life.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together an international team of scholars. They provide a broad combination of expertise in law, philosophy, and political science. Overall, this thought-provoking examination will appeal to interested readers in both academia and practice. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, USA

    Ann E. Cudd

  • Department of Philosophy, Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Mark C. Navin

About the editors

Ann E. Cudd is Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Her recent work concerns the moral value of capitalism, conceptions of domestic violence in international law, and the injustice of educational inequality. She is past president and founding member of the Society for Analytical Feminism and vice president and president-elect of the American section of the International Society for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL).

Mark C. Navin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University (Rochester, MI). His recent work concerns public health ethics, bioethics, and food justice. His book, Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology and Health Care, was published by Routledge in 2016. He is the Executive Director of AMINTAPHIL.

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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