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What Does the Self-Deceiver Want?

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2018
According to a recent theory of the motivational content of self-deception (Funkhouser, 2005), the self-deceiver wants to be in a state of mind of belief that p, upon which her want that p be true would be merely contingent. While I agree with Funkhouser
Patrizia Pedrini
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Deceiving Yourself to Better Deceive High-Status Compared to Equal-Status Others

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2014
The arms race between deception and detection is likely to have played out between individuals in different status hierarchies, with low-status individuals more likely to be deceivers and high-status individuals more likely to be detectors than the other
Hui Jing Lu, Lei Chang
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Self-deception and delusions

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2006
My central question in this paper is how delusional beliefs are related to self-deception. In section 1, I summarize my position on what self-deception is and how representative instances of it are to be explained. I turn to delusions in section 2, where
Alfred Mele
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