Allan Nanva

Lying

Perspective from Science and Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Science and philosophy join forces in this book to explain the phenomenon of deceptive behaviour. Darwin is here to tell us that deception is rooted in evolution; Freud talks about the psychology of lying; Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky comment on language development and the onset of lying; Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A. J. Ayer and many others express their views on moral and ethical aspects of lying. It is refreshing to read about Utilitarian lying, Consequentialism, Hedonism and Visceral morality concisely and in such clear language. Pinocchio's nose is given scientific characteristics, its functions analogized to the polygraph and the fMRI machine. The author presents wide ranging information scarcely found in one volume. This introductory book is destined to find its deserving place on many a curious shelf.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Publicious Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780648766605
• ISBN-10: 0648766608
• Artikelnr.: 60743047

Autorenporträt

Allan Nanva is an academic living in Sydney. With background in Samuel Beckett's work, he has turned to specializing in Semiotics and Structuralism. His book Mythologies of Late is in homage to one of the major thinkers of the 20th century, Roland Barthes, for whose work he has great fondness.