Titolo Self-Deception: What is it to Blame After All? Periodico Annali del dipartimento di filosofia Anno: 2005 - Volume: 11 - Pagina iniziale: 147 - Pagina finale: 179
Does self-deception constitute a threat to the distinguishing kind of rationality human beings enjoy? I propose a compromise between the deflationary solutions to the alleged puzzles selfdeception has long been taken to give rise to and some virtues of the competing account -namely, the intentionalist view. In order to fulfil the task, I argue as to precisely what is left to blame in self-deception once we have made sense of why intentionalism fails to capture the nature of the phenomenon.