Knowing our own minds

by MacDonald, Cynthia Smith, Barry C., (Philosopher) Wright, Crispin

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Knowledge of one's own sensations, desires, intentions, thoughts, beliefs, and other attitudes is characteristically different from other kinds of knowledge: it has greater immediacy, authority, and salience. This volume offers a powerful and comprehensive look at current work on this topic, featuring closely interlinked essays by leading figures in the field that examine philosophical questions raised by the distinctive character of self-knowledge, relating it to knowledge of other minds, to r…

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Full title :Knowing our own minds / edited by Crispin Wright, Barry C. Smith, and Cynthia Macdonald.

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Publication Date:2000.
Edition:Pbk. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

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"This anthology is based on a conference on self-knowledge held at the University of St. Andrews in August, 1995"--Preface.

Originally published: 1998.

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Description:x, 450 pages ; : 24 cm.

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ISBN:0199241406, 9780199241408, 9780198236672, 0198236670
oclc:ocm44541834
LC Classification:BD450
Dewey Decimal:128

Introduction -- 1 Self-Knowledge: The Wittgensteinian Legacy -- 2 Response to Crispin Wright -- 3 Conscious Attitudes, Attention, and Self-Knowledge -- 4 An Eye Directed Outward -- 5 Externalism and Authoritative Self-Knowledge -- 6 Self-Knowledge: Special Access versus Artefact of Grammar -- A Dichotomy Rejected -- 7 Self-Knowledge and Resentment -- 8 Reason and the First Person -- 9 What the Externalist Can Know A Priori -- 10 Externalism, Twin Earth, and Self-Knowledge -- 11 Externalism, Architecturalism, and Epistemic Warrant -- 12 First-Person Authority and the Internal Reality of Beliefs -- 13 The Simple Theory of Colour and the Transparency of Sense Experience -- 14 On Knowing One's Own Language -- 15 On Knowing One's Own Language.

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