Political Self-Deception

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Why Political Self-Deception?
	A Clear Notion of SD
	Can Moral Responsibility Be Ascribed to Self-Deceivers?
	SD in Politics
	SD in Context
Part I The Philosophy of Self-Deception
	Chapter 1 Investigating Self-Deception
		1 Preliminary
		2 A Critical Analysis of the Philosophy of SD
		3 The Invisible Hand Model
		4 Concluding Remarks
	Chapter 2 The Attribution of Responsibility to Self-Deceivers
		1 The Moral Question and Responsibility Attribution
		2 Bypassing Control
		3 SD Prevention
		4 Concluding Remarks
Part II Self-Deception in Politics
	Chapter 3 The Self-Deception of Political Leaders, Officials, and Governments
		1 Preliminary
		2 Objections to Political SD
		3 The Make-Believe Effect of Leaders\' SD and the Realist Objection
		4 A Typology of Political Self-Deception
		5 Collective SD: How It Works
		6 What Is to Be Done?
		7 Concluding Remarks
	Chapter 4 Kennedy and Cuba
		1 How Could I Have Been So Stupid?
		2 Collective SD
		3 Consent and Criticism
		4 Sour Grapes
		5 The Missile Crisis
		6 A Success Story
		7 The Secret Deal and the President\'s Lie
	Chapter 5 Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
		1 Introduction
		2 Plotting the Escalation (1963-1964)
		3 August 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin
		4 The Response and the Interpretations
		5 Concluding Remarks
	Chapter 6 Bush and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
		1 Smoking Guns, Mushroom Clouds, and Smokescreens
		2 The Gap between Selling and Background Reasons
		3 The Real Motive(s)
		4 The Public Rationale for War
		5 Aluminum Tubes, Yellowcake, and Curveball
		6 The People\'s SD
Conclusion
	Explanatory and Normative Reasons in Favor of Self-Deception
References
Index