A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 Whether itÕs in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning
of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many …

Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding
myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We …

Everyone says that lying is wrong. But when we say that lying is bad and hurtful and that we
would never intentionally tell a lie, are we really deceiving anyone? In this wise and …

Deception is a universal feature of life, at all levels and in all relationships both within
species and between species, inside individuals and outside, with strong effects on both …

The nihilists are right, admits philosopher Loyal Rue. The universe is blind and aimless,
indifferent to us and void of meaning. There are no absolute truths and no objective values …

Virtually every aspect of self-deception, including its definition and paradigmatic cases, is a
matter of controversy among philosophers. Minimally, self-deception involves a person who …

Three puzzles about self-deception make this mental phenomenon an intriguing explanatory
target. The first relates to how to define it without paradox; the second is about how to make …

" A book too disturbing to be ignored."—Booklist, boxed review Lies are often so subtle, so
deftly woven into easily acceptable truths, that we can fail to recognize them. Turning Sisela …

In his third and final investigation into the science of belief, bestselling author Michael
Shermer tackles the evolution of morality and ethics A century and a half after Darwin first …

An evolutionary theory of self‐deception‐the active misrepresentation of reality to the
conscious mind‐suggests that there may be multiple sources of self‐deception in our own …