Table of Contents

Clancy Martin: Introduction: "The Intersections of Deception and Self-Deception,"
I. The Practices of Deception and Self-Deception
1: Robert C. Solomon: "Self, Deception and Self-Deception in Philosophy,"
2: Harry Frankfurt: "On Truth, Lies, and Bullshit,"
3: William Ian Miller: "Deceit in War and Trade,"
4: Mark A. Wrathall: "On the Existential Positivity of Our Ability to be Deceived,"
5: David Sherman: "Self-Deception, Deception, and the Way of the World,"
6: Kelly Oliver: "Duplicity Makes the Man, Or, Can Animals Lie?"
7: Paul Ekman: "Lie Catching and Micro Expressions,"
II. Truth, Lies and Self-Deception: The Theory and the Ethics
8: Alan Strudler: "Deception and Trust,"
n 9Thomas Carson: "Lying, Deception, and Related Concepts,"
10: "Deception and the Nature of Truth," by Michael Lynch
11: James Edwin Mahon: "The Truth About Kant on Lies,"
12: David Sussman: "Kant's Repugnant Conclusion: Exceptions, Emergencies, and the 'Supposed Right to Lie',"
13: Amelie Rorty: "User-Friendly Self-Deception" A Traveler's Manual,"
14: Alfred R. Mele: "Have I Unmasked Self-Deception or am I Self-Deceived?"

About the Author

Clancy Martin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri.

Reviews

"This elegant volume collects fourteen essays that take up, in a wide array of contexts, the issues of deception, self-deception, lying and various other forms of dissimulation. It is an impressive addition to a growing body of work on these topics." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"14 excellent, highly representative essays on the longstanding philosophical debates over deception/self-deception." --CHOICE
"Especially impressive is the balance achieved by the authors between the discussions of the theoretical aspects of deception and the common everyday manifestations of it, an important point which will draw readers from various backgrounds and not just the philosophically trained ones. The contributions by the late Robert C. Solomon, Harry Frankfurt, William Ian Miller, Mark A. Wrathall, David Sherman, Kelly Oliver and Paul Ekman are outstanding examples of
analyses of the ways in which lies and lying influence us and our orientation in the world."--Metapsychology