Alexander Fischer is a research fellow at the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the Otto Friedrich University Bamberg. He was a visiting scholar at Duke University and at Cambridge University.
Alexander Fischer is a research fellow at the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the Otto Friedrich University Bamberg. He was a visiting scholar at Duke University and at Cambridge University.
In his extremely clearly written book, Alexander Fischer applies himself to a fascinating phenomenon, whose everyday significance can barely be overestimated: Manipulation. He first deals with the subject conceptually, and then embeds it in an action-theoretically way and finally examines its specific psychological manifestations. Fischer closes with the outline of an ethic of manipulation,...