This book explores the idea that self-knowledgecomes in many varieties. The author offers an innovative“pluralist” position on self-knowledge, emphasizing the complexity of thephenomenon and its resistance to any “monistic” treatment, to pose new andintriguing philosophical challenges.

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This book explores the idea that self-knowledge comes in many varieties. We “know ourselves” through many different methods, depending on whether we attend to our propositional attitudes, our perceptions, sensations or emotions. Furthermore, sometimes what we call “self-knowledge” is not the result of any substantial cognitive achievement and the characteristic authority we grant to our psychological self-ascription is a conceptual necessity, redeemed by unravelling the structure of several interlocking concepts. This book critically assesses the main contemporary positions held on the epistemology of self-knowledge. These include robust epistemic accounts such as inner sense views and theory-theories; weak epistemic accounts such as transparency theories and rational internalism and externalism; as well as expressivist and constitutivist approaches. The author offers an innovative “pluralist” position on self-knowledge, emphasizing the complexity of the phenomenon and its resistance to any “monistic” treatment, to pose new and intriguing philosophical challenges.

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ISBN
9781137326126
Publisert
2016-07-21
Utgiver
Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
16

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