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Self-Deception

Herbert Fingarette

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English
University of California Press
23 February 2000
"With a new chapter

This new edition of Herbert Fingarette's classic study in philosophical psychology now includes a provocative recent essay on the topic by the author. A seminal work, the book has deeply influenced the fields of philosophy, ethics, psychology, and cognitive science, and it remains an important focal point for the large body of literature on self-deception that has appeared since its publication.

How can one deceive oneself if the very idea of deception implies that the deceiver knows the truth? The resolution of this paradox leads Fingarette to fundamental insights into the mind at work. He questions our basic ideas of self and the unconscious, personal responsibility and our ethical categories of guilt and innocence. Fingarette applies these ideas to the philosophies of Sartre and Kierkegaard, as well as to Freud's psychoanalytic theories and to contemporary research into neurosurgery. Included in this new edition, Fingarette's most recent essay, ""Self-Deception Needs No Explaining (1998),"" challenges the ideas in the extant literature."

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Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   First Edition, with a New Chap ed.
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   227g
ISBN:   9780520220522
ISBN 10:   0520220528
Pages:   189
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1. Introduction II. To Believe and Not To Believe III. To Say or Not To Say IV. To Avow or Not To Avow V. Sartre and Kierkegaard V1. Ego and Counter-Ego VII. The Ambiguities of Self-Deception To Be and Not To Be Appendix A-The Neuropsychological Context of Self-Deception Appendix B (1998)-Self-Deception Needs No Explaining Bibliography Selected Bibliography on Cerebral Commissurotomy Index

Herbert Fingarette is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to Self-Deception (1969), he is the author of The Self in Transformation (1963), On Responsibility (1967), The Meaning of Criminal Insanity (California, 1972), Confucius: The Secular as Sacred (1972), Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility (California 1979), Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease (California 1988), and Death: Philosophical Soundings (1996).

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