Seeing through Self-Deception

Annette Barnes

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511583353

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.

"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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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-ix

Acknowledgments
pp x-x

Introduction
pp 1-3

1 - Other-deception
pp 4-17

2 - Two models of self-deception
pp 18-33

3 - The need for an alternative model of self-deception
pp 34-58

4 - Functioning to reduce an anxiety; satisfying a desire
pp 59-76

5 - Self-deceptive belief formation: non-intentional biasing
pp 77-97

6 - False consciousness
pp 98-109

7 - Intentional and non-intentional deception of oneself
pp 110-134

8 - Irrationality
pp 135-157

9 - What, if anything, is objectionable about self- and other-deception?
pp 158-175

References
pp 176-180

Index
pp 181-182

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