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    Challenges→A dispositional account of self-deception should be developed that focuses on how self-deceivers' dispositions deviate from those of stereotypical full belief.

    A dispositional framework that focuses on behavioral deviations from stereotypical belief systematically obscures the first-person phenomenological structure that makes self-deception distinctively problematic for moral responsibility.

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    Behavioral deviations(as used in decision theory)
    Times when people's actual choices don't match what the theory predicted they would do.
    Dispositional framework(as used in philosophy of mind and ethics)
    A way of explaining things by focusing on what someone is inclined or tends to do, rather than what they actually think or feel inside.
    First-person perspective(individual, subjective experiences about consciousness)
    A subjective, personal view from inside your own experience—what something is like for you alone, from your own point of view.
    Phenomenological structure(how something actually works in our lived experience, not just its etymology)
    The fundamental way something actually appears to us in our direct experience or consciousness, rather than just what the word for it historically meant.

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    Self-deception(Zhu Xi's account of wrongdoing)
    Allowing oneself to ignore the promptings of one's moral sense and become motivated solely by physical desires
    Stereotypical belief(as used in epistemology)
    A belief that fits the usual or standard pattern—what we'd normally expect someone in that situation to believe.
    moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
    A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)

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