Seeing through Self-Deception
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 09 November 2009
- 22 January 1998
- ISBN:
- 9780511583353
- 9780521620147
- 9780521038775
- Dimensions:
- (216 x 138 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.345kg, 194 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (216 x 138 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.265kg, 196 Pages
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Book description
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.
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"Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and researchers." Choice
"We are grateful to Annette Barnes for courageously shedding light on a difficult and important problem." Béla Szabados, Philosophy in Review
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