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Synopsis
"This book presents a fine-grained, distinctive, and highly plausible account of self-deception in an engaging and concrete style. Mele's book is also the most psychologically informed philosophical treatment of the topic I know of."—Robert Audi, University of Nebraska
Julie E. Kirsch - Ethics
An engaging and accessible read for both those who have and those who have not previously thought extensively about self-deception. . . . What is particularly compelling about Mele's analysis of self-deception is that it demonstrates, in contrast with many accounts of self-deception that purport to demonstrate the opposite, that we have relatively little control over many of the beliefs that are most important to us—beliefs that concern the objects of our desires. . . . [T]he book gives rise to many fascinating questions concerning human nature.