Steven M. Cahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, then as Acting President. He is the author or editor of 70 books. His most recent works include Religion Within Reason; A Philosopher's Journey: Essays from Six Decades; Teaching Philosophy: A Guide; and Navigating Academic Life: How the System Works. He serves as editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Readings in Philosophy series.

Carissa Véliz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, as well as a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Privacy Is Power (an Economist book of the year 2020) and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics.

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Carissa Véliz

1 The Right to Privacy

Judith Jarvis Thomson

2 Thomson on Privacy

Thomas Scanlon

3 Why Privacy is Important

James Rachels

4 Privacy and the Limits of Law

Ruth Gavison

5 Privacy, Morality, and the Law

W. A. Parent

6 Concealment and Exposure

Thomas Nagel

7 The Liberal Value of Privacy

Boudewign de Bruin

8 What is the Right to Privacy?

Andrei Marmor

9 Privacy Rights and Public Information

Benedict Rumbold and James Wilson

10 Privacy and the Importance of ‘Getting Away With it’

Cressida Gaukroger

11 Privacy in Social Media

Andrei Marmor

12 Governing Privacy

Carissa Véliz

Index

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