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| The Overriding Threat of Self-Deception | |
BENJAMIN IAN WINOKUR
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| 2024-08 | |
| Size of Audience | 20 |
| Type of Speaker | Concurrent Session Speaker |
| Abstract | Philosophers who claim that we have privileged access to our mental states, such that we possess distinctively secure self-knowledge of them, face a challenge in explaining self-deception. This is because it commonly believed that self-deception about one’s own mind is widespread, and that one has mistaken self-beliefs in such cases. Some optimists about privileged access have argued that self-deception does not involve mistaken self-beliefs after all. I argue that, even granting this optimistic argument, a skeptical threat remains. Specifically, an agent might later become reasonably albeit falsely convinced that self-deception entails mistaken self-belief, and thus come to possess an undefeated ‘overriding defeater’ for her self-knowledge. |
| Keyword | Self-knowledge Self-belief Self-deception Privileged Access Epistemic Defeaters |
| Conference Date | August 6th, 2024 |
| Conference Place | La Sapienza University |
| Funding Project | Knowing and Expressing Ourselves |
| Language | 英語English |
| Document Type | Presentation |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Affiliation | University of Macau |
| First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | BENJAMIN IAN WINOKUR. The Overriding Threat of Self-Deception, August 6th, 2024. |
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