New York: Cambridge University Press (1997)
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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 non-intentional. In this study, Annette Barnes offers a challenge to both the standard characterisation of other-deception 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 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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Keywords | Consciousness Ethics Irrationality Metaphysics Self-deception |
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Reprint years | 1998, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011 |
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Call number | BD439.B37 1997 |
ISBN(s) | 0521620147 0521038774 9780521620147 9780521038775 9780511583353 9780511824470 |
DOI | 10.2307/3071099 |
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