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1 online resource (vii, 373 pages) |
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On the very possibility of self-deception / Brian P. McLaughlin -- Vital but dangerous art of ignoring : selective attention and self-deception / Annette C. Baier -- User-friendly self-deception / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Self, deception, and self-deception in philosophy / Robert C. Solomon -- Bad faith and Kitsch as models for self-deception / Kathleen Marie Higgins -- Unloading the self-refutation charge / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Falsity, psychic indefiniteness, and self-knowledge / Joel J. Kupperman -- Confucian perspective on self-deception / A.S. Cua |
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Confucian construction of a self-deceivable self / Robert Cummings Neville -- Classical Chinese self and hypocrisy / Roger T. Ames -- Our names are legion for we are many : on the academics of deception / David L. Hall -- Half-dressed emperor : societal self-deception and recent "Japanokritik" in America / William R. LaFleur -- Facing the self with masks : perspectives on the personal from Nietzsche and the Japanese / Graham Parkes -- Self-deception : a comparative study / Eliot Deutsch -- Self-deception and cultural contextualization : reflections on two Indian novels / Wimal Dissanayake -- Ritual, self-deception, and make-believe : a classical Buddhist perspective / Richard P. Hayes |
| Summary |
This volume contains essays by a range of distinguished philosophers on the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception. The work proceeds from the assumption that changing constructions of self within Western cultures, and alternative notions of self in other cultures requires that we rethink traditional strategies for explaining the phenomenon of self-deception. The concept of self is central to any sustained inquiry into self-deception, the pertinent issue being what sort of self is victim (or beneficiary) of self-deception. Several of the authors here base their thinking on the model of "other-deception," and include discussion of the notions of double selves, multiple selves, and subsystems of the self, to address this troubling problem. Other authors argue that "other-deception" is not an adequate or reliable model to guide our thinking on this issue. The psychological and moral dimensions of self-deception generate a rich discussion, as do its epistemic implications. The concept of emotionality also receives sustained attention |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Self-deception.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Self-deception
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ames, Roger T., 1947-
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Dissanayake, Wimal.
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| ISBN |
0585067813 |
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9780585067810 |
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