Felix Timmermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 9518258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felix Timmermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felix |
| FAMILY NAME | Timmermann |
| SIGNATURE | TIMMERMANN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Handbuch Tugend und Tugendethik
To lie or to mislead
The aim of this paper is to argue that lying differs from mere misleading in a way that can be morally relevant: liars commit themselves to something they believe to be false, while misleaders avoid such commitment, and this difference can make a moral difference. Even holding all else fixed, a lie can therefore be morally worse than a corresponding misleading utterance. But, we argue, there are also cases in which the difference in commitment ma…
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Handbuch Tugend und Tugendethik
To lie or to mislead
The aim of this paper is to argue that lying differs from mere misleading in a way that can be morally relevant: liars commit themselves to something they believe to be false, while misleaders avoid such commitment, and this difference can make a moral difference. Even holding all else fixed, a lie can therefore be morally worse than a corresponding misleading utterance. But, we argue, there are also cases in which the difference in commitment ma…
Commit (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Deception (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 works) · Free Will and Agency (1 works) · Linguistics (1 works) · Lying (1 works) · Metaphysics (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works)