SELF-DECEPTION VS SELF-CAUSED DECEPTION - A COMMENT ON PROFESSOR MELE

Mele's study of philosophical and psychological theories of self-decep tion informatively links the conceptual and dynamic aspects of self-de ception and explicates it without positing mutually inconsistent belie fs, such as those occurring in two-person deception. It is argued, how ever, that he does not do full justice to the dissociation characteris tic of self-deception and does not sufficiently distinguish self-decep tion from self-caused deception.