Seeing through Self-Deception (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press, 1/22/1998
EAN 9780521620147, ISBN10: 0521620147
Hardcover, 194 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
What is it to deceive someone? And how is it possible to deceive oneself? Does self-deception require that people be taken in by a deceitful strategy that they know is deceitful? The literature is divided between those who argue that self-deception is intentional and those who argue that it is non-intentional. In this study, Annette Barnes offers a challenge to both the standard characterization of other-deception and characterizations of self-deception, examining the available explanations and exploring such questions as the self-deceiver's false consciousness, bias and the irrationality and objectionability of self-deception. She arrives at a non-intentional account of self-deception that is deeper and more complete than alternative non-intentional accounts and avoids the reduction of self-deceptive belief to wishful belief.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Other-deception
2. Two models of self-deception
3. The need for an alternative model of self-deception
4. Functioning to reduce an anxiety
satisfying a desire
5. Self-deceptive belief formation
non-intentional biasing
6. False consciousness
7. Intentional and non-intentional deception of oneself
8. Irrationality
9. What, if anything, is objectionable about self- and other-deception?
References
Index.