Sam Berstler defends a general moral advantage for misleading over lying by arguing that liars, but not misleaders, act unfairly toward the other members of their linguistic community. This article spells out three difficulties Berstler’s account. First, though aims to avoid an error theory, it is dubitable her account fits with intuitions on matter. Second, there are some lies do exhibit unfai...

A shared information system is expected to comply with the following potentially conflicting requirements. On the one side it should provide useful answers to arbitrary queries, while on the other side it should preserve certain secrets according to a security policy. We study and compare two previously suggested approaches to meet these requirements, namely refusal of statements and lying . Th...

The brain is unquestionably the most fascinating organ. Despite tremendous progress, current knowledge falls short of being able to explain its function. An emerging approach toward improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying brain function is neuroproteomics. Today's neuroscientists have access to a battery of versatile technologies both in transcriptomics and proteomics. The...

Structural balance theory attempts to model signed networks consisting of positive (friendly) and negative (antagonistic) relations. We consider network creation games for modeling the evolution of signed networks. Recently, Malekzadeh et. al. (KDD 2011) have proposed a network creation game based on structural balance theory of signed networks. In this paper, we introduce a generalized model b...

This article proposes definitions of lying and deception in strategic settings. A critical distinction is that deception requires a model of how the audience responds to messages while lying does not. Lies need not be deceptive. Deception does not require lying. The paper identifies situations in which lying is consistent with equilibrium and when the ability to lie is welfare enhancing. Decept...

The opportunity to tell a white lie (i.e., a lie that benefits another person) generates a moral conflict between two opposite moral dictates, one pushing towards telling always the truth and the other pushing towards helping others. Here we study how people resolve this moral conflict. What does telling a white lie signal about a person’s pro-social tendencies? To answer this question, we cond...

We have been forced to stop all intercourse between Adler's splinter group and our own association, and our medical guests are also requested to choose which of the two they will visit. . . . It is not my purpose, my dear lady, to enforce such limitations in your case. 1 only request of you that with due regard for the situation you make use of an artificial psychic split, so to speak, and make...

A metapragmatic expression denotes an event of speaking. An embedded metapragmatic construction embeds one metapragmatic expression within another, as in "Bush said Clinton lied." This article reports that embedded metapragmatic constructions, when used in television news coverage of U.S. political campaigns, most often predicate on the topic of lying. Simple metapragmatic constructions in this...

We model lying as a communicative act changing the beliefs of the agents in a multi-agent system. With Augustine, we see lying as an utterance believed to be false by the speaker and uttered with the intent to deceive the addressee. The deceit is successful if the lie is believed after the utterance by the addressee. This is our perspective. Also, as common in dynamic epistemic logics, we model...