Seeing through Self-Deception

Annette Barnes author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:6th Aug '07

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Annette Barnes offers a challenge to the standard characterization of other-deception and self-deception.

What is it to deceive someone? And how is it possible to deceive oneself? Annette Barnes offers a challenge to the standard characterization of other-deception and characterizations of self-deception, exploring such questions as the self-deceiver's false consciousness and the irrationality of 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.

"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

ISBN: 9780521038775

Dimensions: 215mm x 139mm x 10mm

Weight: 265g

196 pages