Deceptive Speech Acts in Philosophy and Law, Krakow, October 5th-6th

Untruth and deception have always been a topic of great interest to philosophers, as well as being of obviously central importance to jurists and legal theorists. Still, recent years have seen a stark increase of interest in concepts and theories of deceptive and misleading utterances. Old definitions are being reconsidered and novel topics emerge, such as the variety of non-assertive acts that might or might not be characterized as lies (questions, implicatures, explanations etc.) or, more puzzlingly still, the possibility of lying or misleading utterances produced by non-human, artificial agents. Moreover, theoretical debates are being supported with an unprecedented wave of empirical research.

These new developments are the main theme of the workshop “Deceptive Speech Acts in Philosophy and Law” organized by the Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy. The workshop will take place in Kraków, on October 5-6th. See the program below. The workshop is taking place in person, but it's possible to listen to the talks and submit questions for the Q&A online. To receive the link for the online transmission, please register at leopold.hess@uj.edu.pl.

Venue: Larisch Palace, 12 Bracka Street, room 203.

All times are local (GMT+2)

Thursday, October 5^th

9.30	Opening
9.35-10.35	Neri Marsili	Lying: some insights from speech act theory
10.35-11.35	Grzegorz Gaszczyk, Aleksandra Krogulska, Marcin Danielewski	Lying is not just insincerely asserting
11.35-12.00	Coffee break
12.00-13.00	Joshua Luczak	Climate Denialism Bullshit is Harmful
13.00-14.30	Lunch
14.30-15.30	Izabela Skoczeń	Lies, common ground, and the law
15.30-16.00	Coffee break
16.00-17.00	Louisa Reins, Alex Wiegmann	Lying without saying something false
17.00-18.00	Amit Pundik, Binyamin Blum, Shani Schnitzer	Criminalization of deceptive sex
19.00	Dinner

 

Friday, October 6th

10.00-11.00	Markus Kneer	Communicating with humans and robots
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-12.30	Neele Engelmann	Is lying morally different from misleading? An empirical investigation
12.30-13.30	Susan Ehrmann Provenzano	Questioning Hearsay’s Formalism
13.30-15.00	Lunch
15.00-16.00	Paweł Banaś	Malingering of PTSD: Language of Deception
16.00-16.30	Coffee break
16.30-17.30	Wojciech Załuski	Lying as the Paradigm of Evil
17.30	Conclusion of the workshop

 

This research was funded by the Priority Research Area Heritage under the program Excellence Initiative – Research University at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow