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Vladimir Krstic

United Arab Emirates University
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  • Fearful apes or nervous goats? Another look at functions of dispositions or traits
    Vladimir Krstic
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46. 2023.
    In his article, Grossmann argues that, in the context of human cooperative caregiving, heightened fearfulness in children and human sensitivity to fear in others are adaptive traits. I offer and briefly defend a rival hypothesis: Heightened fearfulness among infants and young children is a maladaptive trait that did not get deselected in the process of evolution because human sensitivity to fear in others mitigates its disadvantageous effects to a sufficient extent.
  • Lying, Tell-Tale Signs, and Intending to Deceive
    Vladimir Krstic
    Dialectica 1-27. forthcoming.
    Arguably, the existence of bald-faced (i.e. knowingly undisguised) lies entails that not all lies are intended to deceive. Two kinds of bald-faced lies exist in the literature: those based on some common knowledge that implies that you are lying and those that involve tell-tale signs (e.g. blushing) that show that you are lying. I designed the tell-tale sign bald-faced lies to avoid objections raised against the common knowledge bald-faced lies but I now see that they are more problematic than w…Read more
  • Deception (Under Uncertainty) as a Kind of Manipulation
    Vladimir Krstic and Chantelle Saville
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (4): 830-835. 2019.
    In his 2018 AJP paper, Shlomo Cohen hints that deception could be a distinct subset of manipulation. We pursue this thought further, but by arguing that Cohen’s accounts of deception and manipulation are incorrect. Deception under uncertainty need not involve adding false premises to the victim’s reasoning but it must involve manipulating her response, and cases of manipulation that do not interfere with the victim’s reasoning, but rather utilize it, also exist. Therefore, deception under uncert…Read more