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CONSCIOUSNESS, IRRATIONALITY, AND SELF-DECEPTION (hardcover)
| Author: | Rossman, Neil | |
| Year: | 2024 | |
| Pages: | 308 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1290-8 978-1-4955-1290-2 | |
| Price: | $219.95 | |
Self-deception, and assorted other forms of irrationality, are human phenomena and so human problems. They arise in the course of the development of human consciousness. They do not precede or stand outside the development of human consciousness but are rather aspects of this development.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Difficulties of Phenomenology
Chapter 2: Knowledge and Reflective Consciousness
The Limits of Pre-Reflective Consciousness
The Emergence of Reflective Consciousness
Chapter 3: Knowledge and Irrationality
Knowledge and Error
The Expansion of Consciousness
Reflective Consciousness and Irrationality
Reflective Consciousness and Rationality
Hot and Cool Irrationality
Cool Irrationality and Choice
Chapter 4: Deception and Other-Deception
Otherness and Possibility
Imaginative Scenarios
Other-Deception and Intention
Deception and Fanaticism
The Determination of Rationality
Chapter 5: Self-Deception and Habit
Self-Deception, Habit and the Unconscious
Habits of Avoidance and Denial
The Preferability of Explanation by Habit
Rigid Habits and Settled Dispositions
Chapter 6: The Vulnerabilities of Self
The Indifferent World
Scarcity and Deception
The Ubiquity of Need
The Enticements of Avoidance
Chapter 7: The Operation of Self-Deception
Mele, Intention and Agency
Agency
Agency, Avoidance and Habit
Self-Deception Supporting Other-Deception
Self
Agency Absorbed Within Habit
Penetrating Habit
Weakness of Will and Self-Deception
Recalcitrant Examples
A Two-Edged Sword
Bibliography
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Difficulties of Phenomenology
Chapter 2: Knowledge and Reflective Consciousness
The Limits of Pre-Reflective Consciousness
The Emergence of Reflective Consciousness
Chapter 3: Knowledge and Irrationality
Knowledge and Error
The Expansion of Consciousness
Reflective Consciousness and Irrationality
Reflective Consciousness and Rationality
Hot and Cool Irrationality
Cool Irrationality and Choice
Chapter 4: Deception and Other-Deception
Otherness and Possibility
Imaginative Scenarios
Other-Deception and Intention
Deception and Fanaticism
The Determination of Rationality
Chapter 5: Self-Deception and Habit
Self-Deception, Habit and the Unconscious
Habits of Avoidance and Denial
The Preferability of Explanation by Habit
Rigid Habits and Settled Dispositions
Chapter 6: The Vulnerabilities of Self
The Indifferent World
Scarcity and Deception
The Ubiquity of Need
The Enticements of Avoidance
Chapter 7: The Operation of Self-Deception
Mele, Intention and Agency
Agency
Agency, Avoidance and Habit
Self-Deception Supporting Other-Deception
Self
Agency Absorbed Within Habit
Penetrating Habit
Weakness of Will and Self-Deception
Recalcitrant Examples
A Two-Edged Sword
Bibliography