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SELF-DECEPTION UNMASKED SELF-DECEPTION UNMASKED PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Cop! r~gh0t 200 1 b! Pr~llcetolLl Tnn erslg Press P~ibl~sheb: d Pr~ncetoU~ln ~~ersPr~egss , 41 IY~lliamS treet, Princeton, hTenJ ersej 08540 In the LTnited IGngdom Pr~ucetonL -n~rersigP ress, 3 2Iarket Place, IThodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SP 411 kghts Resen ed Libraq- of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicatioll Data AIele, Alfred R., 195 l- Self-deception unrl~asked/ Afred R. AIele. p. cm. - (Princeton monographs in philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBAT0 -691-057W-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)- ISBK 0-691-0574.5-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-1 3: 978-0-691-05745-3 I. Self-deception. I. Title. 11. Series. BD439 .A145 2000 128'.3-dc21 00-032626 This book has been co~nposedin Janson Text and Centaur The paper used in this publication meets the minimum req~iirementso f .=SIlKISO 239.48-1992 (R1997) (PPw?I~~of IP~ap~ezr)c ~ Printed in the LTnited States of Limema Contents CHAPTEIR. I ~ltrodzlct~Aop~p~~:. oncbes,P zlzzles, B~nses-a,n lzd Agency 3 CHAPTER Garden-Vnrzet), Stra~ghtS elflDecept~on: 2. Sowe Psycbolog~cnlP l.ocesses 5 2 CHAPTEjR. TzL'i.rted Self-Deceptiorz 94 V i TM~OTI~T~~~TE DM E to accept Harry Frankfurt's kind invita- tion to submit a mailuscript to this series was the opportunity to present and defend in a systematic way a positioil on self- deception that has evolved partly out of my earlier attempts to shed light on the phenomenon. Although I draw on previously published work, the defense offered here of my central theses about the kind of self-deception that has received pride of place in the philosophical and psychological literature is nluch more robust and has an importailt new dinlensioil that benefits from recent empirical work on hypothesis testing. The general posi- tion on self-deception advanced here also is considerably more comprehensive than what I have been able to mailage in my scattered efforts on the topic over the years. I have been thinking about self-deception longer than it pleases me to acknowledge. My first stab at the topic (Mele 1982)' a brief commentary on a provocative paper by Robert Audi( 1982), coiltains some of the seeds of the position ad- vanced in this book. Ally central point there was that "there is no close general analogy between self-deception and i7zterztio7znl other deception" and that "when our attachment to this analogy is broken, there is significantly less motivation to postulate un- conscious [tr~~bee]l iefs in ordinary cases of self-deception" (Mele I 982, p. 164). I11 Mele 1983, I offered a more rigorous
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