Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

11-2018

Publication Title

The Oxford Handbook of Lying

Pages

541-552

Publisher Name

Oxford University Press

Abstract

I begin by discussing views about the permissibility of lying by political leaders. Sections II and III address historically important lies and lies about history and the historical record. These two categories overlap - some lies about the historical record were historically important events. In section IV, I discuss the related notion of half-truths and give examples of misleading/deceptive half-truths about history. In the final section of this chapter, I briefly discuss the obligations of historians to give truthful accounts of historical events.

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Author Posting © Oxford University Press, 2018. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Oxford University Press for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in The Oxford Handbook of Lying, November, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198736578.001.0001

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