A Logical Account of Dishonesty

14^th October 2019, 12:00 H223
Dr. Martin Caminada
Cardiff University
School of Computer Science and Informatics

Abstract

Although formal logic is usually applied to reason about truth, in the current presentation we apply it to reason about dishonesty. Based on work in philosophy, we provide a formalisation of different forms of dishonesty, including lies, half-truth and bullshit, and discuss their formal properties. We also provide maxims for dishonest communication, that agents should ideally try to satisfy, both for moral and self-interested reasons.