"Jens Timmermann provides a detailed philosophical, developmental and historical analysis of Immanuel Kant's 1797 essay 'On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity', in which Kant argues that it is criminally wrong to lie to protect a friend from being murdered"--

Jens Timmermann is the Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (Cambridge, 2007) and Kant's Will at the Crossroads (2022) and the editor of the German-English edition of Kant's Groundwork (Cambridge, 2011).

1. Introduction; 2. Kant's Duties of Truthfulness; 3. The Story of Kant's Essay; 4. Theoretical Foundations, Supposed Solutions; 5. The Intricacies of Constant's Example; 6. A Right to the Truth in Another?; 7. Form and Matter; 8. Kant's Argument against Constant; 9. Luck and the Imputation of Harm; 10. What Kant Should Have Said.