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Vladimir Krstić is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Auckland, supervised by John Bishop and Fred Kroon, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, and an Honours degree in Theology from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Theology. Prior to joining UAEU, Krstić held a position at Nazarbayev University from 2019 and served as a full-time high school teacher in Religious Studies in Belgrade from 2004 to 2012. He has also been an invited lecturer on topics including Philosophy of Action at the University of Auckland in 2014, The Philosophy and Ethics of Lying and Deception at Northeastern University in 2020 and 2021, and Ethics for Policymakers for PhD students in Global Health at Northeastern University from 2022 to 2023.

Krstić's research centers on philosophy of deception, including lying, self-deception, manipulation, assertion, and intending to cause beliefs, as well as philosophy of mind and language. He has published extensively in leading philosophy journals. Key works include his 2025 book Deception and Self-Deception: a Unified Account (Cambridge University Press), articles such as A Functional Analysis of Human Deception (2024, Journal of the American Philosophical Association), Manipulation, Deception, the Victim’s Reasoning, and Her Evidence (2024, Analysis), Bald-Faced Lying to Institutions: Deception or Manipulation (2024, Synthese), On the Connection between Lying, Asserting, and Intending to Cause Beliefs (2025, Inquiry), and On the Function of Self-Deception (2021, European Journal of Philosophy). Additional contributions cover experimental analyses of bald-faced lies (2024, Erkenntnis, with Alex Wiegmann), transparent delusion (2023, Review of Philosophy and Psychology), and interdisciplinary topics like a pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story (2024, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament). His scholarship advances understandings of deception in human interpersonal relations, deepfakes, and biological signaling.