Lying, Uptake, Assertion, and Intent

Turri, Angelo; Turri, John

doi:10.1163/18773109-00802006

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“…For this case, the clear majority of participants (96%) evaluated Charlotte's answer as lying but only 35% ascribed an intention to deceive to her (see Krstić, forthcoming, for a critique of indifferent lies). While this case indicates that it is not impossible to construct cases that people consider instances of lying without an intention to deceive, the fact that it happens within a special context—a bet—might also suggests that it is not easy to come up with rather ordinary cases in which lying and an intention to deceive come apart (see Krstić, , Turri & Turri, , for further candidate cases; and Hornung, , for lying with good intentions).…”

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The folk concept of lying

Wiegmann

Meibauer

2019

Philosophy Compass

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Lying is a familiar and important concept for virtually all of us, and philosophers have written a lot about what it means to lie. Although it is commonly accepted that an adequate definition of lying captures people's use and understanding of this concept, there have been surprisingly few empirical studies on it. n recent years, however, there is a trend emerging to remedy this lacuna. In this paper, we provide an overview of these studies. Starting from a widely accepted philosophical definition of lying, we focus on the following three questions: Is an intention to deceive required for lying? Is it possible to lie despite saying something true? Can you lie by falsely implicating?

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Section: Empirical Studies On the Concept Of Lyingmentioning

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The folk concept of lying

Wiegmann

Meibauer

2019

Philosophy Compass

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“…Closely related to assertions, lies which are regarded as dishonest assertions have also gained much attention in experimental philosophy of language in recent years. Turri and Turri (2016) assessed the common view that to tell a lie is to make false assertion in order to deceive others in a series of behavioral experiments. What they found is that attributions of lies are subjected to the influence of audience uptake and are based on attributions of assertion rather than attribution of deceptive intentions.…”

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A bibliometric study of the research field of experimental philosophy of language

Zhu

2022

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The past eighteen years witnessed the rapid development of experimental philosophy of language. Adopting a bibliometric approach, this study examines the research trends and status quo of this burgeoning field based on a corpus of 237 publications retrieved from PhilPapers. It is observed that experimental philosophy of language has undergone three stages, the initiation stage, the development stage, and the extension stage, across which there is a clear upward trend in the annual number of publications. Michael Devitt, Edouard Machery, John Turri, Nat Hansen, et al., are found to be the most productive philosophers, testifying their leading positions in this field. Journals, instead of books, are the major homes of works in this area. The analysis also yields a list of influential works, including the seminal work “Semantics, Cross-cultural Style” and other significant publications on the semantics of various types of expressions. Relatedly, the major research themes are found to include not only intuitions about the reference of proper names, but also a wide array of philosophically and linguistically interesting issues like the meaning of color adjectives, epistemic modals, and predicates of personal taste, the norms of assertions and the essence of lies, etc. These findings showcase that experimental philosophy of language has broadened the research territory and offered deep insights into central issues of philosophy of language that are beyond the reach of the conventional armchair methodology.

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“…One study found that lie attributions are affected by the audience's ability to hear an agent's spoken words, and that this effect was mediated by judgments about whether the agent made an assertion (Turri and Turri 2016, experiment 1). A second study found that lie attributions and assertion attributions were significantly correlated (Turri and Turri 2016, experiment 2).…”

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Lying by Omission: Experimental Studies

Chernak

Dietrich

Raspopovic

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Leading theories of lying disagree on many points, but they agree on the following assumption: lying essentially involves asserting. The possibility of lying by omission poses a challenge to that shared assumption. To lie by omission is to lie by not asserting. This paper is the first experimental investigation of whether lying by omission is conceptually possible, according to our ordinary, shared lying concept. Overall, our results support, without proving, that it is not possible. Based on the present findings, we hypothesize that to the extent that people are tempted to call an omission a "lie," it is for lack of a better word. When provided more flexibility to express themselves, almost no one in our studies counted an omission as a lie.

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Lying, Uptake, Assertion, and Intent

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

The folk concept of lying

The folk concept of lying

A bibliometric study of the research field of experimental philosophy of language

Lying by Omission: Experimental Studies

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