Self-deception

References and further reading

All items cited are comprehensible by advanced undergraduates.

	Davidson, D. (1985) ‘‘Deception and Division’, in E. Lepore and B. McLaughlin (eds) Actions and Events, New York: Blackwell. (Advances a much-discussed partitioning account.)
	Demos, R. (1960) ‘Lying to Oneself’, Journal of Philosophy 57: 588-95. (Seminal paper advancing modest partitioning.)
	Fingarette, H. (1969) Self-Deception, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Emphasizes the dynamic nature of self-deception and develops an action-oriented response to familiar worries about the possibility of self-deception.)
	Haight, M. (1980) A Study of Self-Deception, Sussex: Harvester Wheatsheaf. (Defends the impossibility of self-deception.)
	Lockard, J. and Paulhus, D. (1988) Self-Deception: An Adaptive Mechanism?, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (Useful collection of literature in psychology and related fields.)
	Mc Laughlin, B. and Rorty, A. (1988) Perspectives on Self-Deception, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Useful collection; extensive bibliography.)
	Martin, M. (1985) Self-Deception and Self-Understanding, Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (Useful collection of philosophical and psychological literature; extensive bibliography.)
	Mele, A. (1987) Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control, New York: Oxford University Press. (Criticizes partitioning and advances an alternative resolution of the static and dynamic problems.)
	Pears, D. (1984) Motivated Irrationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Advocates radical partitioning.)
	Sartre, J-P. (1943) L’être et le néant, Paris: Gallimard; trans. H. Barnes, Being and Nothingness, New York: Washington Square Press, 1956. (Includes an influential discussion of bad faith, a phenomenon sometimes identified with self-deception.)