RECENT WORK ON SELF-DECEPTION

RECENT philosophical work on self-deception revolves around two interrelated collections of paradoxes. One collection focuses on the state of self-deception. The other is centrally concerned with the processes that produce this state. I shall call them, respectively, the static and the dynamic paradoxes. In both cases, paradox is generated by the application of certain common assumptions about interpersonal deception to the intrapersonal...