# Seana Shiffrin

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Seana Shiffrin, “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (Princeton UP, 2014)

It is generally accepted that lying is morally prohibited. But theorists divide over the nature of lying’s wrongness, and thus there is disagreement over when the prohibition might be outweighed by competing moral norms.There is also widespread agreement over the idea that promises made under condi…

Seana Shiffrin on Promises, Contracts, and Democracy

In this episode, I talk with Seana Shiffrin, Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA. Professor Shiffrin is one of the most influential legal theorists of her generation, and has written extensively in moral, political, and legal philosophy, as well as c…

Seana Shiffrin

I ask the philosopher Seana Shiffrin five questions about herself. Seana Shiffrin is Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA. She is the author of “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (2014).

Free Speech and Free Thinking with Seana Shiffrin

Seana Shiffrin is Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA. She defends the “thinker theory” of freedom of speech, which holds that a central reason for upholding a moral and legal system of free speech is that such a system is necessary for free thought …

Seana Shiffrin, “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (Princeton UP, 2014)

It is generally accepted that lying is morally prohibited. But theorists divide over the nature of lying’s wrongness, and thus there is disagreement over when the prohibition might be outweighed by competing moral norms.There is also widespread agreement over the idea that promises made under condi…

Seana Shiffrin, “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (Princeton UP, 2014)

It is generally accepted that lying is morally prohibited. But theorists divide over the nature of lying’s wrongness, and thus there is disagreement over when the prohibition might be outweighed by competing moral norms.There is also widespread agreement over the idea that promises made under condi…

Think Like A Human Episode 5: Truth, Lies and Politics

This episode is part 1 of my talk with Lawrence Wilkinson, where we talk about truth, lies and Trump-era politics, bringing in philosopher Seana Shiffrin's deontological perspective, and Plato's concept of the Noble Lie. 

No Offense

What if you could sue someone for calling you a racial slur? In the 90s, one country that always looked very similar to America decided to allow it, rolling back the rights to free speech in the interest of protecting victims of hate speech. Is the result a slippery slope to government tyranny, or …