This is the first dedicated collection of philosophical essays on the topic of lying. Interdisciplinary in approach, it explores how a better understanding of language can inform the study of knowledge, ethics, or politics. Written primarily for researchers and graduate students in philosophy, it also accessible to readers from other disciplines.

• Introduction


• I Language


• 1: Don Fallis: What is Deceptive Lying?


• 2: Jessica Pepp: Truth Serum, Liar Serum, and Some Problems about Saying What You Think is False


• 3: Ishani Maitra: Lying, Acting, and Asserting


• II Knowledge


• 4: Peter Graham: Sincerity and the Reliability of Testimony: Burge on the A Priori Basis of Testimonial Entitlement


• 5: Andreas Stokke: Fabrication and Testimony


• 6: Olav Gjelsvik: Bullshit Production


• III Ethics


• 7: Thomas L. Carson: The Range of Reasonable Views about the Morality of Lying


• 8: James Mahon: Secrets vs. Lies


• 9: Eliot Michaelson: The Lies We Tell Each Other Together


• 10: Jorah Dannenberg: Lying Among Friends


• IV Politics


• 11: Katherine Hawley: Coercion and Lies


• 12: Jennifer Saul: Negligent Falsehood, White Ignorance, and Fake News


• 13: Jennifer Lackey: Group Lies


• 14: Roy Sorensen: Lying to Mindless Machines


• Appendix


• 15: Jonathan E. Adler: Lying and Misleading: A Moral Difference

Dr. Michaelson is a Lecturer at King's College London. He joined the Department of Philosophy in 2014 after holding the position of Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University the previous academic year. Dr. Michaelson was a Ph.D. student at UCLA, and he holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and an A.A. from Deep Springs College. He works primarily in philosophy of language, also has a secondary interest in ethics, and is the creator of the Philosophy Time video series.
Dr. Stokke pursued his postgraduate studies at the University of St Andrews, where he received an MLitt degree in 2006 and a Ph.D. in 2010. After completing his doctoral studies, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo and at the University of Lisbon. In 2013, he took up a position as University Lecturer at Umeå University. Dr. Stokke was awarded a Pro Futura Scientia Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in 2016 after being nominated by the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, where he is now also a senior lecturer. His research is mainly in the fields of philosophy of language and epistemology, but he has also worked on ethics and philosophy of action.