Self and deception : a cross-cultural philosophical enquiry / edited by Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ames, Roger T., 1947-

Dissanayake, Wimal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-deception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 373 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains essays by a range of distinguished philosophers on the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception. The work proceeds from the assumption that changing constructions of self within Western cultures, and alternative notions of self in other cultures requires that we rethink traditional strategies for explaining the phenomenon of self-deception. The concept of self is central to any sustained inquiry into self-deception, the pertinent issue being what sort of self is victim (or beneficiary) of self-deception. Several of the authors here base their thinking on the model of "other-deception," and include discussion of the notions of double selves, multiple selves, and subsystems of the self, to address this troubling problem. Other authors argue that "other-deception" is not an adequate or reliable model to guide our thinking on this issue. The psychological and moral dimensions of self-deception generate a rich discussion, as do its epistemic implications. The concept of emotionality also receives sustained attention.

Contents:

On the very possibility of self-deception / Brian P. McLaughlin

Vital but dangerous art of ignoring : selective attention and self-deception / Annette C. Baier

User-friendly self-deception / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty

Self, deception, and self-deception in philosophy / Robert C. Solomon

Bad faith and Kitsch as models for self-deception / Kathleen Marie Higgins

Unloading the self-refutation charge / Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Falsity, psychic indefiniteness, and self-knowledge / Joel J. Kupperman

Confucian perspective on self-deception / A.S. Cua.

Confucian construction of a self-deceivable self / Robert Cummings Neville

Classical Chinese self and hypocrisy / Roger T. Ames

Our names are legion for we are many : on the academics of deception / David L. Hall

Half-dressed emperor : societal self-deception and recent "Japanokritik" in America / William R. LaFleur

Facing the self with masks : perspectives on the personal from Nietzsche and the Japanese / Graham Parkes

Self-deception : a comparative study / Eliot Deutsch

Self-deception and cultural contextualization : reflections on two Indian novels / Wimal Dissanayake

Ritual, self-deception, and make-believe : a classical Buddhist perspective / Richard P. Hayes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-7914-9472-1

0-585-06781-3