Subjects of Deceit: A Phenomenology of Lying

by Alison Leigh Brown

Book Overview

Philosophy has traditionally concerned itself with truth and the knowledge of truth, but in recent years these concerns have been undermined or redirected. Systematic philosophy is said to be dead. Thus epistemology, according to this popular series of views, is properly transformed into epistemologies. If we accept multiple epistemologies, however, truth and lying become even more frightening and elusive: lying always coexists with truth. In this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079143673X
• ISBN13: 9780791436738
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.