Search for dissertations about: "self-deception"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the word self-deception.

2. 1. A Different Kind of Ignorance : Self-Deception as Flight from Self-Knowledge

   Author : Elinor Hållén; Sharon Rider; Martin Gustafsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; self-deception; self-knowledge; anxiety; rationality; intentionality; psychoanalysis; Freud; Davidson; Gardner; Lear; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

   Abstract : In this dissertation I direct critique at a conception of self-deception prevalent in analytical philosophy, where self-deception is seen as a rational form of irrationality in which the self-deceiver strategically deceives himself on the basis of having judged that this is the best thing to do or, in order to achieve something advantageous. In Chapter One, I criticize the conception of self-deception as analogous to deceiving someone else, the so-called “standard approach to self-deception”. READ MORE