TY - BOOK ID - 77865448 TI - Irrationality PY - 1992 SN - 0195359879 1423735609 9781423735601 1280526602 9781280526602 9780195080018 0195080017 0197730647 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Irrationalism (Philosophy) KW - Act (Philosophy) KW - Akrasia. KW - Self-deception. KW - Deception KW - Defense mechanisms (Psychology) KW - Self-perception KW - Acrasia (Ethics) KW - Incontinence (Ethics) KW - Ethics KW - Action (Philosophy) KW - Agent (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Absurd (Philosophy) KW - Belief and doubt KW - Rationalism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865448 AB - The author demonstrates that certain forms of irrationality - incontinent action and self-deception - which many philosophers have rejected as being logically or psychologically impossible, are indeed possible. ER -