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Journal Article
Neuroscience and Sartre's Account of Bad Faith
2013
Overview
The article explores the possibility that studies in cerebral commissurotomy (severing of the corpus callosum) may shed some light on Jean-Paul Sartre's account of bad faith. I examine this issue from both a descriptive and an explanatory point of view. My conclusion is that Sartre and various neuroscientists seem generally to agree on the description of self-deception, but they substantially disagree on how the phenomenon is to be explained. I argue that Sartre's account does not seem fully adequate, while the neuroscientific approach may have explanatory potential if certain conceptual issues are resolved. I also argue that, carefully delimited, the neuroscientific stance complements Sartre's approach.
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Pennsylvania State University Press,Penn State University Press
