Self-Deception in Belief Acquistion

• Main Author: Echano, Mario R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: : Cognitive Bias; Motivated Believing; Self-Deception; LayHypothesis Testing; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/5; https://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_25/echano_december2019.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Attempts to analyze self-deception (“SD,” from here on) have produced a series of articles and books trying to characterize the phenomenon and to resolve the problems involved in it. None has been found to satisfy the inquisitive minds as no analysis has been able to embrace all cases of SD. Alfred...