This course analyzes the ethics of lying, the semantics of lying compared to other modes of deception, the metaphysics of truth, and interdisciplinary applications of theories of truth and deception as they pertain to, for example, media trustworthiness, replicability in science, gatekeeping powers with academic publishing, placebo effects and patient deception in medicine, and illusion and misdirection in art and entertainment. Humanities.
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GEP, elective credit