Law and the Philosophy of Privacy

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
 Approaches: philosophy and law......Page 16
 Chapter summaries......Page 17
 Bibliography......Page 21
 Introduction: ‘the liberal canon’......Page 23
 Thomson and Fried: appropriations of Locke’s “property in the person”......Page 24
 Schoeman and Bloustein: conversations with Kant......Page 33
  Cohen......Page 40
  Pentland......Page 41
 Bibliography......Page 43
 Introduction......Page 46
 Privacy in common law: background......Page 47
 Privacy as intimacy: race and class......Page 51
 Warren and Brandeis......Page 54
 European law and privacy......Page 58
 Vogel and Pateman......Page 62
 Bibliography......Page 63
 Introduction......Page 66
 Autonomy: Mill, Kant and the sublime......Page 68
 Battersby on Kantian autonomy......Page 69
 Kant’s hero and his opposites......Page 73
 “Impossible autonomy”: Friedman, Battersby and Nedelsky......Page 76
 Nedelsky’s relational autonomy......Page 78
 Gordon Hull: privacy and neo-liberalism......Page 80
 Spinoza: different boundaries......Page 85
 Answering Cohen’s questions......Page 86
 Bibliography......Page 89
 Introduction......Page 93
 Pateman: Locke, property in the person and privacy......Page 95
 Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government: Coleman......Page 101
 Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government: Balibar......Page 106
 Privacy, memory and life stories......Page 109
 Law and the governance of the self with an interest......Page 113
 Bibliography......Page 116
 Introduction......Page 120
 Privacy as property: Posner......Page 121
 Posner on blackmail......Page 131
 The commodification of privacy: Titmuss and Arrow......Page 133
 “Contested commodities”......Page 139
 Privacy......Page 143
 Bibliography......Page 146
 Floridi’s ethics: background sketch......Page 150
 Floridi’s conception of privacy......Page 151
 “Re-ontologizing the infosphere”: Floridi, Foucault and architecture......Page 152
 “The informational nature of human beings”......Page 158
 Extended cognition......Page 160
 Envisaging personal data collection: “kidnapping not intrusion”......Page 162
 Floridi’s conception of self......Page 166
 Homo poieticus, homo faber and zōon politikon......Page 168
 Bibliography......Page 170
 Introduction......Page 174
 Spinoza’s ontology and adequate knowledge......Page 176
 The importance of the transmission of adequate knowledge......Page 181
 An immanent ethics of privacy......Page 184
 Freedom, free speech and adequate knowledge......Page 186
  (a) Sacrificing individuals or groups, for the greater whole......Page 187
  (b) Berlin: Spinoza as justification for imposing adequate knowledge......Page 190
 Applications of immanent ethics to privacy......Page 194
  (a) Subordination and its effects on the transmission of adequate knowledge......Page 195
  (b) Laws that undermine the communication of adequate knowledge......Page 197
 Bibliography......Page 199
 Setting the scene......Page 204
 Autonomy and privacy......Page 207
 Privacy as property: Locke and Posner......Page 208
 Spinoza applied to commodified views of privacy......Page 212
 Reconceptualising privacy......Page 213
 Bibliography......Page 215
Index......Page 218