He is also the director of the philosophy and science of self control project and past director of the big questions in free will project 201020. Werkmeister professor of philosophy at florida state university. Although much human action serves as proof that irrational behavior is remarkably common, certain forms of irrationalitymost notably, incontinent action and self deception pose such difficult theoretical problems that philosophers have rejected them as logically or psychologically impossible. Self deception unmasked princeton monographs in philosophy book 6 ebook.
Mele selfdeception raises complex questions about the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. The term selfdeception describes the puzzling situation in which a person appears both to know and not know one and the same thing. Buy selfdeception unmasked princeton monographs in. An essay on akrasia, self deception, and self control by mele, alfred r. He has taken it on in a series of papers over the past twenty years notably mele 1997 and at various places in previous books. Understanding self deception as motivated false belief gives addicts and people who live, love, and work with us at least two fronts on which to work. Meles book is also the most psychologically informed philosophical treatment of the topic i know of. This hope is boldly voiced by jonathan baron in a book on rational thinking and.
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