Lying as a Language Game? A Game Theory Perspective

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angličtina

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Lying as a Language Game? A Game Theory Perspective

Original language description

Within game theory, there are important experiments on lying that aim to show the extent to which participants are willing to lie given the costs and benefits of such behavior. However, these investigations have so far only unsystematically reflected the debates about lying in the contemporary philosophy of language and epistemology, in which a variety of definitions of lying are at work. Using the experiment in Fischbacher & Follmi-Heusi (2013) as an example, we demonstrate that the use of contemporary philosophy can be advantageous for game theory in reducing one type of ambiguity in these games: ambiguity about what type of lie is actually considered and applied by the participants. We show that players in the experiment could lie in 17 different ways, all of which are described in James Mahon’s list summarizing definitions of lying in contemporary philosophy (Mahon 2016). It remains ambiguous whether the liars made decisions regarding the identical lying language game and whether they accounted for the same disutility of lying. Future experiments could reduce this ambiguity by including elements in the instructions that make it clearer what type of lie the participant considers or applies.

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building</a><br>

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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů