This second objection is that willfully engaging in self-deception renders pragmatic belief-formation morally problematic and rationally suspect, since willfully engaging in self-deception is the deliberate worsening of one's epistemic situation.
Mari Eastman: Objects, Decorative and Functional Mari Eastman's paintings, drawings and sculptures willfully engage the fictions of the world around us.
Willfully engaging in eroticism is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious; that "that it's more work than play" it's more work than play.
"Black girls are likened more to adults than to children and are treated as if they are willfully engaging in behaviors typically expected of black women," said Dr. Monique W. Morris, the founder and president of the National Black Women's Justice Institute, in her book Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools.
An individual who knows the health risks of smoking or of skydiving, but willfully engages in these behaviors and dies as a result, could be said to be causally responsible for her own death but not to have committed suicide.
In closing, I guess I should apologize for whatever nightmare scenario you could all end up living through just because one citizen willfully refused to become engaged politically.
Alpher sees more recent advocates of "regime change" as another instance of Israelis who "willfully or erroneously engage in wishful thinking and ignore the dramatic change that has taken place in Iran's power structure since the shah's day".
There was no suggestion from any member of staff that Bahmanzadeh or Costelloe engaged with or willfully encouraged the sale of drugs.
Were Elop and Ihamuotila just being corporate cheerleaders, or were they engaged in a plan to willfully deceive and defraud their shareholders?
Hatch has proposed legislation to provide a default mens rea — literally, "guilty mind" — standard to govern cases in which a particular statute doesn't spell out the required state of mind: The defendant would have to have engaged in a criminal act "willfully" in order to be prosecuted.
