Annette Barnes, a former professor of Philosophy, has published two books of philosophy, Seeing Through Self-Deception and On Interpretation. Her poems have appeared in several journals but Next In Line is her first book of poems. She lives in England.

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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 characterisation of other-deception and current 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.

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What is it to deceive someone? And how is it possible to deceive oneself? Annette Barnes offers a challenge to the standard characterization of other-deception and characterizations of self-deception, exploring such questions as the self-deceiver's false consciousness and the irrationality of self-deception.

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Other-deception; 2. Two models of self-deception; 3. The need for an alternative model of self-deception; 4. Functioning to reduce an anxiety; satisfying a desire; 5. Self-deceptive belief formation: non-intentional biasing; 6. False consciousness; 7. Intentional and non-intentional deception of oneself; 8. Irrationality; 9. What, if anything, is objectionable about self- and other-deception?; References; Index.