SELF-DECEPTION
Philosophical literature on self-deception has witnessed a vigorous flourishing in the last twenty years or so. It is not surprising that self-deception has attracted such widespread attention from people, as very fewamong us doubt that self-deception is something pervasive in our lives, although there is not yet any complete and satisfactory account of how and why it happens. Furthermore it has been a natural tendency to consider self-deception as analogous to interpersonal deception, with the unwelcome result of rendering self-deception almost impossible, as it requires for the self-deceiver simultaneously to believe that p and that not-p. Therefore, a substantial part of the theoretical efforts in this field have been directed to explain how self-deception is possible, something that raises very complex questions about the nature of belief and the structure of our mind, to quote only a few.
In 2007, a special issue of the Spanish philosophy journal teorema will be devoted to the problems posed by self-deception. Submissions of original papers addressing direct and related conceptual questions concerning self-deception are welcome. Papers presenting relevant empirical research are also acceptable, although its significance for the conceptual questions above should be clearly stated. teorema also welcomes book reviews of recent publications about the subject matter of this call for papers. Papers must be written in Spanish, English, French, German or Italian. They should not exceed 15 DIN A4 double-spaced pages (or 5.000 words) and must be preceded by an abstract both in English and in Spanish. For the presentation of their manuscripts, authors are requested to adhere to the details which can be found at www.uniovi.es/Teorema
Authors should submit three hard copies of their manuscripts, as well as an electronic version in WORD.
Please, send your contributions to:
Prof. Luis M. Valdés Villanueva
Editor of teorema
Departamento de Filosofía
Universidad de Oviedo
E-33071 Oviedo (España)
E-mail: lmvaldes@uniovi.es
Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2007