author and an indeterminate biographical context. The same cannot be said of Mateo Alemán or of Francisco de Quevedo, in the 20.1 (2000) Imitation and the Growth of the Novel 103 case of La vida del buscón (translated by Alpert as The Swindler). Alemán and Quevedo—each in his own way—become rivals of their narrator/protagonists, by putting words into their mouths and by writing misfortune into ...

This pallet derives the ha.sis of a theory, of communicat ion from a formal theov,.' of rat ional interaction. The major result is a <h, mon~t fa l len t hat. i lh ,c , t ionary acts need not I)e pr imit ive, and .ee, I uot he reco~'nized..\s a t,'st case. we derive Searle's condit ions on reqt,est in~ from pri ,ciples of ralionality coupled with a ~;ric~,an theory of iml~erativ,.s. The theory ...

The current service trend does not merely involve face-to-face interactions, including smiling (high-contact-service) by employees, but also using methods such as texting (low-contact service). Sincere and insincere smile studies have used a method involving dynamic (videos) static stimuli (photographs). However, research into the different types of smiles is still limited to vignette. This stu...

Abstract In the current debate on lying-misleading distinction, many theorists distinguish between lying as insincere assertion and misleading through conveying an untruthful implicature. There is growing empirical evidence that average speakers count implicatures cases of lying. What matters for them (degree) commitment to Since conversational may arise with non-assertions, presuppositions are...

In a recent book (Lying and insincerity, Oxford University Press, 2018), Andreas Stokke argues that one lies iff says something believes to be false, thereby proposing it becomes common ground. This paper shows Stokke’s proposal is unable draw the right distinctions about insincere performative utterances. The objection also has repercussions on theories of assertion, because poses novel challe...

Abstract Groups of voters have more possibilities to influence the voting result than separate individuals. However, there is a problem with coordinating their actions. This paper considers manipulation by groups who same preferences. If preferable for particular group provided that all its members use strategy (report insincere preference), then each these has an incentive manipulate. chance t...

We report the results of a simulation experiment inspired by a popular board game. Nine agents are wandering, searching for clues to fill the three slots of a detective case. They have a limited perceptive capacity so that they can discern a clue badly. On meeting each others, agents exchange their current results. They can be insincere, i.e., they can provide false information to divert the ot...

We give evidence that Single Tranferable Vote (STV) is computationally resistant to manipulation: It is NP-complete to determine whether there exists a (possibly insincere) preference that will elect a favored candidate, even in an election for a single seat. Thus strategic voting under STV is qualitatively more difficult than under other commonly-used voting schemes. Furthermore, this resistan...

A key focus of contemporary agent-oriented research and engineering is on open multiagent systems composed of truly autonomous, interacting agents. This poses new challenges, as entities in open systems are usually more or less mentally opaque (e.g., possibly insincere), and can enter and leave the system at will. Thus interactions among such blackor gray-box entities usually imply more or less...