Perspectives on self-deception / edited by Brian P. McLaughlin and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [1988], ©1988.

vi, 558 pages ; 24 cm.

Partial contents: Introduction / Brian P. McLaughlin and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- The deceptive self : liars, layers, and lairs / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Exploring the possiblilty of self-deception in belief / Brian P. McLaughlin -- Self-deception and the nature of the mind / Mark Johnston -- Self-deception, rationalization, and reasons for acting / Robert Audi -- The peculiar effects of love and desire / Bas C. van Fraassen -- Self-deception as rationalization / David H. Sanford -- Partisanship / Adam Morton -- Epistemic dimensions of self-deception / Frederick F. Schmitt -- Self-deception and bad faith / Allen W. Wood -- Psychoanalysis and self-deception / Edward Erwin -- Freud on unconscious affects, mourning, and the erotic mind / Leila Tov-Ruach

Partial contents: Toward a computational account of akrasia and self-deception / Georges Rey -- Pseudorationality / Adrian M.S. Pier -- Emotion and self-deception / Ronald B. de Sousa -- Ideology, false consciousness, and social illusion / Allen W. Wood -- The social context of self-deception / Rom Harré -- Social self-deceptions / William Ruddick -- Mimetic engulfment and self-deception / Bruce Wilshire -- Self-deception, autonomy, and moral constitution / Stephen L. Darwall -- What is wrong with self-deception? / Marcia Baron -- Self-deception and responsibility for the self / Stephen L. White -- Love's knowledge / Martha Nussbaum -- Error or self-deception? : the case of Eduard in Goethe's Elective affinities / Margret Kohlenbach -- Understanding a self-deceiver / Rüdiger Bittner -- Bibliography / Uma Narayan.

Bibliography: p. [553]-558