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Names: Ceva, Emanuela, author. | Bocchiola, Michele, author.
Title: Is whistleblowing a duty? / Emanuela Ceva, Michele Bocchiola.
Other titles: Is whistle blowing a duty?
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018022731 (print) | LCCN 2018038958 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509529681 (Epub) | ISBN 9781509529650 | ISBN 9781509529667 (pb)
Subjects: LCSH: Whistle blowing--Moral and ethical aspects.
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Acknowledgements

Chapters of this book were presented at the Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference at the University of Sheffield (2017) and the International Colloquium on ‘The Democratic Legitimacy of State Secrecy’ at the University of Leiden (2017). We would like to thank the participants for their helpful feedback. The entire manuscript was the object of a dedicated workshop at Northeastern University in January 2018; we are very grateful to Candice Delmas for organizing this event and for her active engagement in it.

We would also like to thank the three anonymous referees, along with the Editors of Polity Press, for their valuable remarks and encouraging suggestions at several stages of the writing process. For their comments on previous versions of some of the chapters, we owe a debt of gratitude to Eric Boot, Francesco Chiesa, Chiara Cordelli, Candice Delmas, Mark Fenster, Maria Paola Ferretti, Manohar Kumar, Dorota Mokrosińska, Gianfranco Pellegrino, Rahul Sagar, Daniele Santoro, William Smith, Bruno Verbeek, Wim Vandekerckhove, Mark Warren, and Federico Zuolo.

A large part of the manuscript was written while Emanuela Ceva was a Fulbright Scholar at the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She is grateful to the Fulbright Commission for the opportunity, and to the Center for providing the most congenial and supportive environment for developing the arguments in the book.

The research for this paper was carried out with the financial support of the European Commission Internal Security Fund Project ‘A Change of Direction’, GA: HOME/2014/ISFP/AG/EFCE/7233.

The book is dedicated to our partners, Andrea and Ania, for their unfaltering support and for graciously accepting their shared fate as impromptu test-beds for our thought experiments.