UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLAINING REAL SELF-DECEPTION - AUTHORS RESPONSE

This response addresses seven main issues: (1) alleged evidence that i n some instances of self-deception an individual simultaneously posses ses ''contradictory beliefs''; (2) whether garden-variety self-decepti on is intentional; (3) whether conditions that I claimed to be concept ually sufficient for self-deception are so; (4) significant similariti es and differences between self-deception and interpersonal deception; (5) how instances of self-deception are to be explained, and the role s of motivation in explaining them; (6) differences among various kind s of self-deception; (7) whether a proper conception of self-deception implies that definitive ascriptions of self-deception to individuals are impossible.