This book is a contribution both to analytical philosophy of mind
and to Marxist philosophy. Marxists see pervasive irrationality in
the conduct of human affairs, and claim that people in a
class-divided society are prone to a variety of misconceptions.
They say that we can suffer from `false consciousness' in our views
about what inspires our behaviour and in our judgements about what
is good for us. Denise Meyerson uses the techniques of analytic
philosophy to investigate this picture. She argues that Marxism is
committed to the idea of motivated belief, and that the idea is
philosophically defensible. She shows that there are other
philosophically defensible claims which are congenial to Marxism:
that there are facts about interests that are not based on wants;
that a desire can be contaminated by its history; that our
judgements about our interests do not automatically motivate us;
and that beliefs can survive the evidence that they are false. In
doing so she throws light on certain puzzling psychological
phenomena which confront everyone in their everyday political
experience.
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