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Self-deception vs. self-caused deception: A comment on Professor Mele

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Robert Audi
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB 68588-0321 raudi@unlinfo.unl.edu
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Abstract

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Mele's study of philosophical and psychological theories of self-deception informatively links the conceptual and dynamic aspects of self-deception and explicates it without positing mutually inconsistent beliefs, such as those occurring in two-person deception. It is argued, however, that he does not do full justice to the dissociation characteristic of self-deception and does not sufficiently distinguish self-deception from self-caused deception.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press