Copyright © 2025 Vladimir Krstic. All rights reserved.

Vladimir KrsticVladimir Krstic

Copyright © 2025 Vladimir Krstic. All rights reserved.

Vladimir Krstic (Krstić)

I am an Assistant Professor at the United Arab Emirates University who specializes in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of deception.

About me

  • I finished a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Auckland under the supervision of John Bishop and Fred Kroon. Jordi Fernández (University of Adelaide) and Andy Egan (Rutgers) examined my dissertation.

    Currently, I live and work in the UAE. Before that, I lived in Astana (Kazakhstan), Auckland (New Zealand), and Belgrade (Serbia), where I was born. I have an Honours degree in Theology from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Theology, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy.

Current Research

  • My current research focuses on some traditional themes in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, and on a cluster of issues at the intersection of the philosophy of language, philosophical psychology, ethics, and, increasingly, the philosophy of technology.

    Specifically, I am developing novel theories of lying, manipulation, deception (including the nature of information and misinformation), and self-deception. By improving our theories of lying and deception, I aim to make self-deception less mysterious.

    I am also developing a new epistemological framework to account for the harm caused by using deepfakes. This framework is specifically designed to account for the epistemic harm caused by the use of non-malevolent deepfakes; specifically, I investigate how using deepfakes for fun aids those using them for deceptive purposes.

Publications

BOOKS

  1. In print. Deception and Self-Deception: a Unified Account. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: PHILOSOPHY

  1. Forthcoming. A Functional Analysis of Self-Deception. Journal of American Philosophical Association.

  2. Forthcoming. Deepfakes, Fake Elvises, and Human Interpersonal Relations. In C. Yanto, F. Ruiping (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Relations: Eastern and Western Perspectives. Springer Nature.

  3. 2025. We Should Move on From Signalling-Based Analyses of Biological Deception. Erkenntnis 90: 545–565. doi:10.1007/s10670-023-00719-x

  4. 2025. On the Connection between Lying, Asserting, and Intending to Cause Beliefs. Inquiry 68: 643–352. doi:10.1080/0020174X.2022.2111344

  5. 2024. Bald-Faced Lying to Institutions: Deception or Manipulation. Synthese 203, 121: 1–13. doi:10.1007/s11229-024-04547-6

  6. 2024. Manipulation, Deception, the Victim’s Reasoning, and Her Evidence. Analysis 84: 267–275. doi:10.1093/analys/anad064

  7. 2024. A Functional Analysis of Human Deception. Journal of American Philosophical Association 10: 836–854. doi:10.1017/apa.2023.19

  8. 2024. Bald-Faced Lies, Blushing, and Noses that Grow: An Experimental Analysis. (with Alex Wiegmann.) Erkenntnis 89: 479–502. doi:10.1007/s10670-022-00541-x

  9. 2023. Lying by Asserting What You Believe to be True: a Case of Transparent Delusion. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 15: 1423–1443. doi:10.1007/s13164-023-00700-1

  10. 2023. Lying to Others, Lying to Yourself, and Literal Self-Deception. Inquiry (Online First): 1–26. doi:10.1080/0020174X.2023.2206850

  11. 2023. Fearful apes or nervous goats? Another look at functions of dispositions or traits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46, E68. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22001959

  12. 2023. Lying: Revisiting the Intending to Deceive Condition. Analysis 83: 249–259. doi:10.1093/analys/anac099

  13. 2022. Review of Jörg Meibauer (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Lying (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 689. Linguistische Berichte 270: 225–236. doi:10.46771/9783967691771_4

  14. 2021. Lying, Tell-Tale Signs, and Intending to Deceive. Dialectica 75 (4). osf.io/u69xk

  15. 2021. On the Function of Self-Deception. The European Journal of Philosophy 29: 846–863. doi:10.1111/ejop.12608

  16. 2020. On the nature of indifferent lies, a reply to Rutschmann and Wiegmann. Philosophical Psychology 33: 757–771. doi:10.1080/09515089.2020.1743255

  17. 2020. Transparent Delusion. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 11: 183–201. doi:10.1007/s13164-019-00457-6

  18. 2019. Deception (Under Uncertainty) as a Kind of Manipulation. (with Chantelle Saville.) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97: 830–835. doi:10.1080/00048402.2019.1604777

  19. 2019. Can you lie without intending to deceive? Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100: 642–660. doi:10.1111/papq.12241

  20. 2018. Knowledge-Lies Re-examined. Ratio 31: 312–320. doi:10.1111/rati.12184

  21. 2016. Students’ responses to scenarios depicting ethical dilemmas: a study of pharmacy and medical students in New Zealand. (with Marcus Henning et al.) Journal of Medical Ethics 42: 466–473. dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2015-103253

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: MISCELLANEOUS

  1. 2024. The Cain and Abel Story: Yahweh’s Criticism of a Dysfunctional Social Arrangement. The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 49: 218–242. doi:110.1177/03090892241269342

  2. 2021. Sworn Virgins of the Balkan Highlands. (with Marija Brujić.) Traditiones 50: 113–130. doi:10.3986/Traditio2021500306

Teaching

  • As an Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

    • Philosophy of Mind

    • Ethics

    • Ethics of AI

    • Critical Thinking

    • Knowledge and Reality

    • Mind, Knowledge, and Reality

  • As an Invited Lecturer

    • Philosophy of Action (University of Auckland) Semester 1 in 2014

    • The Philosophy and Ethics of Lying and Deception (Northeastern University) 2020, 2021

    • Ethics for Policymakers (PhD in Global Health, Invited Lecturer) (NU) 2022–2023

  • As a Full Time High School Teacher

    • Religious Studies (Belgrade) 2004 – 2012

  • Teaching Achievements

    I was nominated for the Academic Faculty Member of the Year award offered by NU Student Awards 2021.

Talks

Conferences

• ASCS = Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (founding member)

• AAP = Australasian Association of Philosophy

• NZAP = New Zealand Association of Philosophy

• SAP = Serbian Association of Philosophy

• AXPhi = Australasian Association of Experimental Philosophy

Peer Reviewed

• CaL2019, Cognition and Lying, Brno, Czech Republic. 28/11–1/12/2019

• AXPhi III Conference, Victoria University, Wellington. 14–15/10/2018

• AAP NZAP Conference, Victoria University, Wellington. 08–12/07/2018

• ASCS 2017 Conference, Port Macquarie, Australia. 07–08/12/2017

• European Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy, Brighton, UK. 04–05/07/2017

• AAP 2015 Conference, Sydney, Australia. 05–09/07/2015

• NZAP 2014 Conference, Christchurch. 02–05/12/2014

Invited

• SAP Conference, Sremski Karlovci (Serbia). 16–18/09/2011

• International conference Serbian theology today. 27–29/05/2011

• International conference Serbian theology today. 28–30/05/2010

Seminar or Colloquia Talks

• Deceiving Without Intending to Deceive in Human Deception (UAEU). March 2021

• Can you lie by asserting what you believe is true? Ruhr University Bochum. July 2020

• Did May Lie (NU, WIP speaker series). September 2019

• Something New on Deception and Manipulation (NU, workshop). August 2019

• Transparent Delusion and How to Explain it. (University of Auckland). March 2018

• You Should be a Manipulativist About Deception (University of Auckland). May 2017

• A Bald Case on Bald-Faced Lying. (UoA). October 2016

• Must a liar say what he believes is false? (UoA). October 2015

• Can omitting information make you a liar. (University of Arizona). September 2015

• Must a liar say what he does not believe? (University of Arizona). September 2015

• A Peculiar case of a Saint who wanted to avoid lying. (University of Melbourne). May 2015

• Must a liar believe that what he says is false? (University of Melbourne). April 2015

• Fallis was almost right about lying. (University of Queensland). September 2014

• Lying, Other-deception, Self-deception. (UoA). June 2014

• Yahweh’s Capriciousness in the Cain and Abel Story. (UoA). June 2014

• Philosophical Analysis of Self-deception. (UoA). October 2014

• Analysis of Self-deception. (UoA). November 2013

• On How Beliefs Influence Behaviour. (UoA). September 2013

Service and Outreach

  • Referee for: Noûs, Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, American Philosophical Quarterly, Ergo, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese, Erkenntnis, Inquiry, Ratio, Dialectica, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Philosophers’ Imprint, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Episteme, Journal of Documentation, Acta Analytica, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, Routledge Book Publishing, ERC.

  • • CITI ethics training course for IRB (Institutional Review Board) members – completed.

    • Philpapers bibliographies Area Editor: ‘Misinformation’ and ‘Lying vs Misleading’ sections.

    • Philosophy PhD students representative for 2015.

    • Philosophy Department Graduate Seminar Series Organizer for 2014.

  • Professional Memberships

    • Nazarbayev University Senate (ended with my contract)

    • Nazarbayev University IREC Committee (ended)

    • New Zealand Association of Philosophy

    • Australasian Philosophical Association

    • Australasian Society for Cognitive Science

  • Languages

    English – Excellent understanding, reading, speaking and writing

    Russian – Advanced understanding, reading, and writing; intermediate speaking

    German – Basic speaking, advanced understanding and reading

    Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian – Native

    New Testament Greek – Basic understanding, reading, and intermediate writing

    Ancient Slavic – Intermediate understanding, reading, and writing

    Old Testament Hebrew – Basic reading and writing