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X. Emotion and Desire in Self-Deception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Alfred R. Mele
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According to a traditional view of self-deception, the phenomenon is an intrapersonal analogue of stereotypical interpersonal deception. In the latter case, deceivers intentionally deceive others into believing something, p, and there is a time at which the deceivers believe that p is false while their victims falsely believe that p is true. If self-deception is properly understood on this model, self-deceivers intentionally deceive themselves into believing something, p, and there is a time at which they believe that p is false while also believing that p is true.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 52 , March 2003 , pp. 163 - 179
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2003

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