Vladimir Krsti¿: Deception and Self-Deception, Gebunden
Deception and Self-Deception
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, 08/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781009509770
- Item number:
- 12289420
- Volume:
- 80 Pages
- Weight:
- 280 g
- Format:
- 235 x 157 mm
- Thickness:
- 9 mm
- Release date:
- 11.8.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Received theories of self-deception are problematic. The traditional view, according to which self-deceivers intend to deceive themselves, generates paradoxes: you cannot deceive yourself intentionally because you know your own plans and intentions. Non-traditional views argue that self-deceivers act intentionally but deceive themselves unintentionally or that self-deception is not intentional at all. The non-traditional approaches do not generate paradoxes, but they entail that people can deceive themselves by accident or by mistake, which is controversial. The author argues that a functional analysis of deception solves these problems. On the functional view, a certain thing is deceptive if and only if its function is to mislead; hence, while (self-)deception may but need not be intended, it is never accidental or a mistake. Also, self-deceivers need not benefit from deception and they need not end up with epistemically unjustified beliefs; rather, they must 'not be themselves'. Finally, self-deception need not be adaptive.