Self-Deception / Herbert Fingarette; ed. by Herbert Fingarette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fingarette, Herbert, Author.

Contributor:

Fingarette, Herbert, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2000]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

With a new chapterThis 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I. 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

VI. Ego and Counter-Ego

VII. The Ambiguities of Self-Deception To Be and Not To Be

Appendix AThe Neuropsychological Context of Self-Deception

Appendix B (1998)Self-Deception Needs No Explaining

Bibliography

Selected Bibliography on Cerebral Commissurotomy

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

0-520-92363-4

OCLC:

1342144025