Beschreibung:
Brian P. McLaughlin is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
Students of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as wishful thinking, bad faith, and false consciousness. The book has six sections, each exploring self-deception and related phenomena from a different perspective.
Sections and Contributors: The Analysis of Self-Deception Amelie Oksenberg Rorty Brian P. McLaughlin Mark Johnston Robert Audi The Epistemic Dimension of Self-Deception Bas C. van Fraassen David H. Sanford Adam Morton Frederick F. Schmitt The Psychology of Self-Deception Allen W. Wood Edward Erwin Leila Tov-Ruach Georges Rey Adrian M. S. Piper Ronald B. de Sousa The Social Dimension of Self-Deception Allen W. Wood Rom Harre' William Ruddick Bruce Wilshire The Moral Dimension of Self-Deception Stephen L. Darwall Marcia Baron Stephen L. White Self-Deception in Literature Martha Nussbaum Margret Kohlenbach Rudiger Bittner