A Functional Analysis of Human Deception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21876385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladimir Krstić (0000-0003-1953-2675, Nazarbayev University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 836-854 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2023.19 |
| OpenAlex | W4386931207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
A satisfactory analysis of human deception must rule out cases where it is a mistake or an accident that person B was misled by person A's behavior. Therefore, most scholars think that deceivers must intend to deceive. This article argues that there is a better solution: rather than appealing to the deceiver's intentions, we should appeal to the function of their behavior. After all, animals and plants engage in deception, and most of them are not capable of forming intentions. Accordingly, certain human behavior is deceptive if and only if its function is to mislead. This solves our problem because if the function of A's behavior was to mislead, B's ending up misled was not an accident or a mere mistake even if A did not intend to deceive B
Appeal · Deception · Epistemology · Mistake · Political science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology
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What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter
Lying and Deception
The Eyes Have It
On the function of self‐deception
On the nature of indifferent lies, a reply to Rutschmann and Wiegmann
We Should Move on from Signalling-Based Analyses of Biological Deception
Lying to others, lying to yourself, and literal self-deception
Signals
What Is Disinformation
Altruistic deception
Propositional content in signals
Toward a formal analysis of deceptive signaling
Animal deception and the content of signals
Behavioural Deception and Formal Models of Communication
Content in Simple Signalling Systems
Actions, Reasons, and Causes
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |