Perspectives on Self-DeceptionStudents of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as wishful thinking, bad faith, and false consciousness. The book has six sections, each exploring self-deception and related phenomena from a different perspective. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Liars Layers and Lairs | 11 |
Exploring the Possibility of SelfDeception in Belief | 29 |
SelfDeception and the Nature of Mind | 63 |
SelfDeception Rationalization and Reasons for Acting | 92 |
The Peculiar Effects of Love and Desire | 123 |
SelfDeception as Rationalization | 157 |
Partisanship | 170 |
Emotion and SelfDeception | 324 |
Ideology False Consciousness and Social Illusion | 345 |
The Social Context of SelfDeception | 364 |
Social SelfDeceptions | 380 |
Mimetic Engulfment and SelfDeception | 390 |
SelfDeception Autonomy and Moral Constitution | 407 |
What Is Wrong with SelfDeception? | 431 |
SelfDeception and Responsibility for the Self | 450 |
Epistemic Dimensions of SelfDeception | 183 |
SelfDeception and Bad Faith | 207 |
Psychoanalysis and SelfDeception | 228 |
Freud on Unconscious Affects Mourning | 246 |
Toward a Computational Account of Akrasia | 264 |
Pseudorationality | 297 |
Loves Knowledge | 487 |
Error or SelfDeception? The Case of Eduard in Goethes | 515 |
Understanding a SelfDeceiver | 535 |
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Contributors 559 | |
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action affect agent akrasia argue avowed bad faith behavior belief that not-p Brian McLaughlin cataleptic causal central claim cognitive concept consciousness consequentialist critical rationality Daniel Dennett deceiving oneself desire disbelieve discussion disposition distinction Donald Davidson Eduard emotions epistemic evidence example experience explain fact false beliefs false consciousness feelings Freud Freudian function homuncular idea ideology imagination intentional intentionally deceived intrinsic involves irrational irrationality Jon Elster judgment justification kind knowledge least main system mental mind moral motive object one's original belief Ottilie paradox person philosophical possible practices Press problem propositional attitudes pseudorational psychoanalytic psychological question rational intelligibility reason recognize relation relevant repression requires responsibility Richard Wollheim Robert Audi role Sartre seems self-deception self-induced deception sense simply skeptic social someone sort Stephen Stich story strategy subsystems suppose things thought tion tropisms truth uncon unconscious Verena wishful thinking wrong