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 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Annette Barnes, Barnes Annette
• Collaboration: Jonathan Dancy (Editeur), Ernest Sosa (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 22.01.1998
• EAN: 9780521620147
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62014-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Poids: 400 g
• Thème: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind