@article {FUNKHOUSER:September 2005:0279-0750:295, author = "FUNKHOUSER, ERIC", title = "DO THE SELF-DECEIVED GET WHAT THEY WANT?", journal = "Pacific Philosophical Quarterly", volume = "86", year = "September 2005", abstract = ":
Two of the most basic questions regarding self-deception remain unsettled: What do self-deceivers want? What do self-deceivers get? I argue that self-deceivers are motivated by a desire to believe. However, in significant contrast with Alfred Mele's account of self-deception, I argue that self-deceivers do not satisfy this desire. Instead, the end-state of self-deception is a false higher-order belief. This shows all self-deception to be a failure of self-knowledge.", pages = "295-312(18)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/papq/2005/00000086/00000003/art00001" doi = "doi:10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00228.x" }