Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: An Anthology

439 Pages·1984·11.32 MB·English

by  Ferdinand David Schoeman

PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSIONS OF PRIVACY

Philosophical Dimensions
of Privacy:
An Anthology
Edited by
FERDINAND DAVID SCHOEMAN
Department of Philosophy
University of South Carolina, Columbia
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Philosophical dimensions of privacy.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Privacy, Right of— Addresses, essays, lectures.
2. Privacy - Addresses, essays, lectures.
I. Schoeman, Ferdinand David.
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Contents
List of contributors page ix
Preface xi
1 Privacy: philosophical dimensions of the literature 1
FERDINAND SCHOEMAN
2 Social distance and the veil 34
ROBERT F. MURPHY
3 The origins of modern claims to privacy 56
ALAN WESTIN
4 The right to privacy [the implicit made explicit] 75
SAMUEL D. WARREN AND LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
5 Privacy [a legal analysis] 104
WILLIAM L. PROSSER
6 Privacy as an aspect of human dignity: an answer to
Dean Prosser 156
EDWARD J. BLOUSTEIN
7 Privacy [a moral analysis] 203
CHARLES FRIED
8 Privacy, freedom, and respect for persons 223
STANLEY I. BENN
9 Privacy and self-incrimination 245
ROBERT S. GERSTEIN
10 Intimacy and privacy 265
ROBERT S. GERSTEIN
11 The right to privacy 272
JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON
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12 Why privacy is important 290
JAMES RACHELS
13 Privacy, intimacy, and personhood 300
JEFFREY H. REIMAN
14 Privacy: some arguments and assumptions 317
RICHARD A. WASSERSTROM
15 An economic theory of privacy 333
RICHARD A. POSNER
16 Privacy and the limits of law 346
RUTH GAVISON
17 Privacy and intimate information 403
FERDINAND SCHOEMAN
Selected bibliography 419
Index of names 425
Contributors
STANLEY i. BENN Department of Philosophy, Research School of
Social Sciences, Australian National University
EDWARDJ. BLOUSTEIN President, Rutgers University
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Former Associate Justice, United States
Supreme Court
CHARLES FRIED Law School, Harvard University
RUTH GAVISON Law School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ROBERT s. GERSTEIN Political Science Department, University of
California at Los Angeles
ROBERT F. MURPHY Department of Anthropology, Columbia
University
RICHARD A. POSNER Judge, United States Court of Appeals,
Seventh Circuit
WILLIAM L. PROSSER Former Dean, Boalt Hall Law School,
University of California at Berkeley
JAMES RACHELS Philosophy Department, University of Alabama
at Birmingham
JEFFREY H. REIMAN Philosophy Department, American
University at Washington, D.C.
FERDINAND SCHOEMAN Philosophy Department, University of
South Carolina at Columbia
JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON Philosophy Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SAMUEL D. WARREN Former lawyer