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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.
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Magnani, L., Bardone, E. (2010). Faking Chance. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15393-8_38
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