Annette Barnes

Seeing Through Self-Deception

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780521038775
• ISBN-10: 0521038774
• Artikelnr.: 22859891

Autorenporträt

Annette Barnes, a former professor of Philosophy, has published two books of philosophy, Seeing Through Self-Deception and On Interpretation. Her poems have appeared in several journals but Next In Line is her first book of poems. She lives in England.

Inhaltsangabe

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.