Faking chance cognitive niche impoverishment

Authors:
Lorenzo Magnani;Emanuele Bardone
Affiliations:
Department of Philosophy and Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia and Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China;Department of Philosophy and Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia
Venue:
KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part III
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The present paper will aim at bringing into light a particular issue related to those situations in which a chance is faked. That is, when an agent acts as if a chance were present in his cognitive niche, when it is not. In illustrating the idea of chance-faking, we will take advantage of the notion of bullshit introduced by Frankfurt. The notion of bullshit has quite recently acquired a theoretical and philosophical dignity. Described as the careless attitude that an agent has towards the truth-value of what he believes in, the notion of bullshit will be taken as a case in point for shedding light on the phenomenon of chance-faking. In the last part of the paper, we will investigate the confabulating dimension of chance-faking introducing the idea of chance-confabulator.