自己欺瞞はいかにして可能か

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  • ジコ ギマン ワ イカニ シテ カノウ カ
  • Jiko giman wa ikani shite kano ka
  • How is it possible to be self-deceived ?

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In this essay, I shall deal with self-deception in its most literal sense, namely "to deceive oneself intentionally into believing what one knows to be false". Admittedly, this phenomenon has long been recognized to be psychologically perplexing and philosophically paradoxical. How could one person knowing the truth get himself to believe the opposite and, as a result, simultaneously hold the contradictory beliefs ? Moreover, the knowledge of one's own intention to deceive oneself should make the project self-defeating because no one can be deceived if he knows the deceiver's intention and motives whether or not they are one and the same person. What follows is an attempt to resolve these problems and clarify the nature and etiology of self-deception. Examining carefully a variety of ways in which desire can influence beliefformation by biasing our cognitive processes, I propose a coherent description of self-deception which is real and common in our daily life. In due course it will be shown that our ability to know our own mental states is limited and we can be mistaken about and unaware of the reasons on which we act.

1. 問題の提示 : 二つのパラドクス 2. 心の分割論について : 若干のコメント 3. 自己欺瞞の具体例と論点の整理 4. メレの解決法とその問題点 5. 信念のパラドクスの解決 6. 意図のパラドクスの解決

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  • 哲學

    哲學 109 23-46, 2003-03

    三田哲學會

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