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SUMMARY:[Postponed to ET] 'Lying\, bullshit and Desinformatsiya' - Christo
 pher Heffer (Cardiff University)
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CONTACT:Onkar Singh
DESCRIPTION:Note that this talk has been postponed to ET. More information
  will be sent out/this will updated in due course.\n\nUntruthfulness in di
 scourse involves often complex relations between language\, mind and world
 . Thus\, while researchers agree to define lying as a ‘believed-false as
 sertion’\, it is quite another thing (as jurors know) to establish that 
 a given speaker believed their assertion to be false. Similarly\, one can 
 define bullshit\, after Frankfurt (2005)\, as an indifference to the truth
 \, but how do we distinguish in practice between indifference and naïve s
 incerity? And where do we place disinformation in an account of untruthful
 ness? Such questions have\, for the most part\, been shunned by discourse 
 analysts. But\, accordingly\, we lack the tools for analyzing the myriad o
 f untruthful statements we are all immersed in today. \n\nIn this talk I s
 uggest that the key category when analyzing untruthful discourse is not ly
 ing (the philosophical obsession) but bullshit\, and not rhetorical bullsh
 itting\, where the speaker knows what they are doing\, but dogmatic bullsh
 it that the speaker may sincerely believe. I then apply the account of unt
 ruthfulness in Heffer (2020) to Russian disinformation\, or dezinformatsiy
 a\, in the Skripal poisoning case and the Ukraine war.  \n \nReferences: \
 nFrankfurt\, H. (2005) On Bullshit. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University P
 ress.\nHeffer\, C. (2020) All Bullshit and Lies? Insincerity\, Irresponsib
 ility and the Judgment of Untruthfulness. New York: Oxford University Pres
 s.
LOCATION:Online
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