Perspectives on Self-Deception

McLaughlin/Rorty

Published by University of California Press 1988

Perspectives on Self-Deception

McLaughlin/Rorty
Edited by: Brian P. McLaughlin and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty

In the series Topics in Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520908482

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Brian P. McLaughlin and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I THE ANALYSIS OF SELF-DECEPTION
1. The Deceptive Self: Liars, Layers, and Lairs Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Exploring the Possibility of Self-Deception in Belief Brian P. McLaughlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Self-Deception and the Nature of Mind Mark Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4. Self-Deception, Rationalization, and Reasons for Acting Robert Audi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Part II THE EPISTEMIC DIMENSION OF SELF-DECEPTION
5. The Peculiar Effects of Love and Desire Bas C. van Fraassen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
6. Self-Deception as Rationalization David H. Sanford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
7. Partisanship Adam Morton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
8. Epistemic Dimensions of Self-Deception Frederick F. Schmitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Part III THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-DECEPTION
9. Self-Deception and Bad Faith Allen W. Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
10. Psychoanalysis and Self-Deception Edward Erwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
11. Freud on Unconscious Affects, Mourning, and the Erotic Mind Leila Tov-Ruach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
12. Toward a Computational Account of Akrasia and Self-Deception Georges Rey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
13. Pseudorationality Adrian M. S. Piper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
14. Emotion and Self-Deception Ronald B. de Sousa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Part IV THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF SELF-DECEPTION
15. Ideology, False Consciousness, and Social Illusion Allen W. Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
16. The Social Context of Self-Deception Rom Harre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
17. Social Self-Deceptions William Ruddick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
18. Mimetic Engulfment and Self-Deception Bruce Wilshire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
Part V THE MORAL DIMENSION OF SELF-DECEPTION
19. Self-Deception, Autonomy, and Moral Constitution Stephen L. Darwall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
20. What Is Wrong with Self-Deception? Marcia Baron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
21. Self-Deception and Responsibility for the Self Stephen L. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	450
Part VI SELF-DECEPTION IN LITERATURE
22. Love's Knowledge Martha Nussbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
23. Error or Self-Deception? The Case of Eduard in Goethe's Elective Affinities Margret Kohlenbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	515
24. Understanding a Self-Deceiver Rüdiger Bittner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
Bibliography Uma Narayan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 568
Keywords: Philosophy; Political

eBook

Published: August 31, 1988
ISBN: 9780520908482

Paperback

Planned Publication: August 31, 1988
ISBN: 9780520061231