Perspectives on Self-Deception

, by McLaughlin, Brian P.; Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg

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ISBN: 9780520061231 | 0520061233
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/1988

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Students of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as wishful thinking, bad faith, and false consciousness. The book has six sections, each exploring self-deception and related phenomena from a different perspective.

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Introduction
The Analysis of Self-Deception
The Deceptive Self: Liars, Layers, and Lairs	p. 11
Exploring the Possibility of Self-Deception in Belief	p. 29
Self-Deception and the Nature of Mind	p. 63
Self-Deception, Rationalization, and Reasons for Acting	p. 92
The Epistemic Dimension of Self-Deception
The Peculiar Effects of Love and Desire	p. 123
Self-Deception as Rationalization	p. 157
Partisanship	p. 170
Epistemic Dimensions of Self-Deception	p. 183
The Psychology of Self-Deception
Self-Deception and Bad Faith	p. 207
Psychoanalysis and Self-Deception	p. 228
Freud on Unconscious Affects, Mourning, and the Erotic Mind	p. 246
Toward a Computational Account of Akrasia and Self-Deception	p. 264
Pseudorationality	p. 297
Emotion and Self-Deception	p. 324
The Social Dimension of Self-Deception
Ideology, False Consciousness, and Social Illusion	p. 345
The Social Context of Self-Deception	p. 364
Social Self-Deceptions	p. 380
Mimetic Engulfment and Self-Deception	p. 390
The Moral Dimension of Self-Deception
Self-Deception, Autonomy, and Moral Constitution	p. 407
What Is Wrong with Self-Deception?	p. 431
Self-Deception and Responsibility for the Self	p. 450
Self-Deception in Literature
Love's Knowledge	p. 487
Error or Self-Deception? The Case of Eduard in Goethe's Elective Affinities	p. 515
Understanding a Self-Deceiver	p. 535
Bibliography	p. 553
Contributors	p. 559
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