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Understanding and explaining real self-deception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Alfred R. Mele
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28036 almele@davidson.edu
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Abstract

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This response addresses seven main issues: (1) alleged evidence that in some instances of self-deception an individual simultaneously possesses “contradictory beliefs”; (2) whether garden-variety self-deception is intentional; (3) whether conditions that I claimed to be conceptually sufficient for self-deception are so; (4) significant similarities and differences between self-deception and interpersonal deception; (5) how instances of self-deception are to be explained, and the roles of motivation in explaining them; (6) differences among various kinds of self- deception; (7) whether a proper conception of self-deception implies that definitive ascriptions of self-deception to individuals are impossible.

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© 1997 Cambridge University Press