Perspectives On Self Deception by Brian P. McLaughlin
A multidisciplinary collection examining how people come to hold and sustain false beliefs about themselves, exploring philosophical debates and psychological evidence about whether self-deception is motivated belief, unconscious bias, or strategic misrepresentation. Contributors analyze mechanisms such as selective attention, rationalization, compartmentalization, and cognitive dissonance, evaluate competing theoretical models for how self-deception differs from lying or simple ignorance, and assess empirical findings from cognitive science. The essays also consider moral and practical implications for responsibility, interpersonal trust, and therapeutic practice, while proposing frameworks to clarify and integrate philosophical and scientific approaches.
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