The Research Seminar Series in Philosophy invites you to a seminar with Luise Mirow, "Lying with pictures".
Abstract: In this talk, I will assume that one can lie with pictures. Given this assumption, I will raise a potential problem for any account of pictorial lies that wants to preserve the distinction between lying and merely misleading. The problem, that I will call ‘the identification problem’, arises from the richness of content in pictures. In its most general form, the identification problem is the challenge to identify which proposition an agent is lying about when lying with a picture. I will consider three possible responses to the identification problem, rejecting two of them and arguing in favour of a response that is based on Schoubye and Stokke’s (2016) account of what is said.
All interested are welcome to this meeting.
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