Full Description
Lying is a familiar and morally important phenomenon. No matter if it is in election battles, in personal relationships or in the form of fake news - lying affects us almost every day. Showcasing cutting-edge research on the concept of lying, including work on blatant falsehoods, children's concept of lying and deception in the courtroom, this interdisciplinary collection examines what it means to lie and how lying should be defined.
Bringing together leading and rising scholars from philosophy, psychology, linguistics and anthropology, chapters present novel empirical findings using a variety of methods including experiments, armchair methods, corpus studies and fMRI. Advancing our understanding of the concept of lying, it also focuses on related concepts such as "fake news" and "bullshit", as well as fundamental questions such as whether lying is morally worse than misleading. It is an essential resource for any student or scholar looking to stay ahead of the latest developments in the philosophy of lying and related fields in philosophy of language, ethics and moral philosophy, philosophy of law, moral psychology, linguistics and cognitive science.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction, Alex Wiegmann
Chapter 1- What Does It Take To Tell A Lie?, Emanuel Viebahn
Chapter 2- The Concept of Fake News, Romy Jaster & David Lanius
Chapter 3- The Concept of Bullshit, Jörg Meibauer
Chapter 4- The Truth About Assertion and Retraction: A Review Of The Empirical Literature, Markus Kneer
Chapter 5- Truth Evaluators: A Different Point Of View in The Lying/Misleading Distinction, Shirly Orr
Chapter 6- Cross-Cultural Studies on Concepts of Lying: Methodological Approaches and Their Findings, Alejandro Erut
Chapter 7- Lying With Gestures, Mailin Antomo
Chapter 8- The Impact of Modality and Presentation Time on Judgments of Deceptive Implicatures As Cases of Lying: An Empirical Investigation, Louisa Reins
Chapter 9- From Lying to Blaming and Perjury: Deceptive Implicatures in the Courtroom and The Materiality Requirement, Izabela Skoczen
Chapter 10- Murderer At The Door! To Lie or To Mislead?, Neele Engelmann
