Herbert Fingarette is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to "Self-Deception" (1969), he is the author of "The Self in Transformation" (1963), "On Responsibility" (1967), "The Meaning of Criminal Insanity" (California, 1972), " Confucius: The Secular as Sacred" (1972), "Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility" (California 1979), "Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease" (California 1988), and "Death: Philosophical Soundings" (1996).
