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BARNES, A., Seeing through Self-Deception. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 196p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. What is it to deceive someone? And how is it possible to deceive oneself? Does self-deception require that people be taken in by a deceitful strategy that they know is deceitful? The literature is divided between those who argue that self-deception is intentional and those who argue that it is non-intentional. In this study, Annette Barnes offers a challenge to both the standard characterization of other-deception and characterizations of self-deception, examining the available explanations and exploring such questions as the self-deceiver's false consciousness, bias and the irrationality and objectionability of self-deception. She arrives at a non-intentional account of self-deception that is deeper and more complete than alternative non-intentional accounts and avoids the reduction of self-deceptive belief to wishful belief. (Publisher's information). € 40.04 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780521038775