Knowing our own minds

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

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Self-knowledge is the focus of considerable attention from philosophers: Knowing Our Own Minds gives a much-needed overview of current work on the subject, bringing together new essays by leading figures. Knowledge of one's own sensations, desires, intentions, thoughts, beliefs, and other attitudes is characteristically different from other kinds of knowledge, such as knowledge of other people's mental attributes: it has greater immediacy, authority, and salience. Together these original, stimu…

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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:1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:1998.

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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

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Description:1 online resource (x, 450 pages)

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ISBN:0191519111, 9780191519116, 9780191598692, 0191598690, 0199241406, 9780199241408
oclc:ocn648166541
LC Classification:BD450
Dewey Decimal:128

Self-knowledge: the Wittgensteinian legacy / Crispin Wright -- Response to Crispin Wright / John McDowell -- Conscious attitudes, attention, and self-knowledge / Christopher Peacocke -- An eye directed outward / M.G.F. Martin -- Externalism and authoritative self-knowledge / Cynthia Macdonald -- Self-knowledge: special access versus artefact of grammar: a dichotomy rejected / Elizabeth Fricker -- Self-knowledge and resentment / Akeel Bilgrami -- Reason and the first person / Tyler Burge -- What the externalist can know a priori / Paul A. Boghossian -- Externalism, twin earth, and self-knowledge / Brian P. McLaughlin and Michael Tye -- Externalism, architecturalism, and epistemic warrant / Martin Davies -- First-person authority and the internal reality of beliefs / Diana Raffman -- The simple theory of colour and the transparency of sense experience / Jim Edwards -- On knowing one's own language / Barry C. Smith -- On knowing one's own language / James Higginbotham.

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08.32 epistemology Actes de congrès Conference papers and proceedings Congress Congresses (form) Connaissance de soi -- Congrès Connaissance de soi, Théorie de la Filosofie van de geest Philosophie de l'esprit Philosophie de l'esprit -- Congrès PHILOSOPHY -- Movements Philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind -- Congresses Saint Andrews <1995> Selbsterkenntnis Self-knowledge, Theory of Self-knowledge, Theory of -- Congresses Zelfkennis