Seeing Through Self-Deception

ISBN-13: 9780521620147 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 194 str.

Annette Barnes; Ernest Sosa; Jonathan Dancy

Opis

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 nonintentional. In this study, Annette Barnes offers a challenge to both the standard characterization of the deception of others and current characterizations of self-deception, examining the available explanations and exploring such questions as the self-deceiver's false consciousness, bias, and the irrationality of self-deception.

Recenzje

"We are grateful to Annette Barnes for courageously shedding light on a difficult and important problem." Béla Szabados, Philosophy in Review

Spis treści

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.