Seeing through Self-Deception
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.
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Seeing through Self-Deception
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.
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Seeing through Self-Deception

Seeing through Self-Deception

by Annette Barnes
Seeing through Self-Deception

Seeing through Self-Deception

by Annette Barnes

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521038775
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08/06/2007
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 5.47(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.39(d)

Table of Contents

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.
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