Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What is a lie?
- 2 Where lies are expected
- 3 Ambiguous domains
- 4 Science
- 5 Cultural diversity
- 6 Relations
- 7 Self-deception and connivance in deceit
- 8 Telling and detecting lies
- 9 Benign untruths: the discourse of fiction
- 10 Evaluations
- 11 Do we have to have lies?
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What is a lie?
- 2 Where lies are expected
- 3 Ambiguous domains
- 4 Science
- 5 Cultural diversity
- 6 Relations
- 7 Self-deception and connivance in deceit
- 8 Telling and detecting lies
- 9 Benign untruths: the discourse of fiction
- 10 Evaluations
- 11 Do we have to have lies?
- References
- Index
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- A Pack of LiesTowards a Sociology of Lying, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994