Cressida Gaukroger (Oxford): 'Privacy and the Importance of "Getting Away With It"'
One reason people value privacy is that it gives them the option of doing or thinking bad things - things that, if made public, would warrant blame, censure or punishment. Privacy protects several types of freedom - and one of these is the freedom to be bad. This paper will argue that this is a good thing.
Cressida Gaukroger is a Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, having received a PhD from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2014. Her article “Why Broad Content Can’t Influence Behaviour” recently appeared in Synthese.
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