Introduction Roger T. Ames And Wimal Dissanayake One On the Very Possibility of Self-Deception Brian P. McLaughlin Two The Vital but Dangerous Art of Ignoring: Selective Attention and Self-Deception Annette C. Baier Three User-Friendly Self-Deception: A Traveler's Manual Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Four Self, Deception, and Self-Deception in Philosophy Robert C. Solomon Five Bad Faith and Kitsch as Models for Self-Deception Kathleen Marie Higgins Six Unloading The Self-Refutation Charge Barbara Herrnstein Smith Seven Falsity, Psychic Indefiniteness, and Self-Knowledge Joel J. Kupperman Eight A Confucian Perspective on Self-Deception A. S. Cua Nine A Confucian Construction of a Self-Deceivable Self Robert Cummings Neville Ten The Classical Chinese Self and Hypocrisy Roger T. Ames Eleven Our Names Are Legion for We Are Many: On the Academics of Deception David L. Hall Twelve A Half-Dressed Emperor: Societal Self-Deception and Recent "Japanokritik" in America William R. LaFleur Thirteen Facing the Self with Masks: Perspectives on the Personal from Nietzsche and the Japanese Graham Parkes Fourteen Self-Deception: A Comparative Study Eliot Deutsch Fifteen Self-Deception and Cultural Contextualization: Reflections on Two Indian Novels Wimal Dissanayake Sixteen Ritual, Self-Deception, and Make-Believe: A Classical Buddhist Perspective Richard P. Hayes Contributors Index

"The book is a provocative trailblazer in that it explores the problematic issues of 'self' and 'deception,' and particularly, 'self-deception,' not only from an epistemological perspective but also from cross-cultural dimensions. While the approach is primarily philosophic, the work is pregnant with implications for cognitive science, cultural anthropology, sociology of knowledge, decision-making theory, and even theoretical biology." — Leo Chang, Regis College