Self-Knowledge

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-959072-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

The volume showcases some of the best contemporary work on this much-debated topic
All essays published here for the first time
Features an illustrious international line-up of contributors

Self-knowledge has always been a central topic of philosophical inquiry. It is hard to think of a major philosopher, from ancient times to the present, who refrained from pronouncing on the nature, the importance, or the limitations of one's knowing of oneself as oneself.
What makes self-knowledge such a perplexing phenomenon? The essays featured in this collection seek to deepen our understanding of self-knowledge, to solve some of the genuine (and to resolve some of the spurious) problems that hold back philosophical progress on that front, and to assess the value of some classic moves in the debate over the epistemic status of self-ascriptions. Some of the chapters discuss features of self-knowledge that appear to account for ist unique -- and, in that sense, peculiar -- status; some advance straight for solving crucial problems; and others take a step back to consider the terms in which we set the questions to which a philosophical theory of self-knowledge is to provide the answer.
Through their rigorous argumentation regarding the issues of reflection, introspection, deliberation, rationality, belief-formation, and epistemic warrant, the contributors illustrate how the specific problems that surround the topic of self-knowledge, instead of being approached as peripheral cases to which ready-made epistemological theories can be applied, may themselves illuminate some fundamental issues in the theory of knowledge.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hatzimoysis, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Anthony Hatzimoysis: Introduction
1: Ram Neta: The Nature and Reach of Privileged Access
2: Sven Bernecker: Representationalism, First-Person Authority, and Second-Order Knowledge
3: Gary Ebbs: Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Epistemic Possibility: Further Reflections on a Puzzle About Doubt
4: Crispin Wright: McKinsey One More Time
5: Alex Byrne: Knowing that I am Thinking
6: Brie Gertler: Self-Knowledge and the Transparency of Belief
7: André Gallois: Deflationary Self-knowledge
8: Anthony Brueckner: Neo-Expressivism
9: Dorit Bar-On: Neo-Expressivism: Avowals' Security and Privileged Self-Knowledge
10: Charles Travis: Viewing the Inner
11: José Luis Bermúdez: Self-knowledge and the sense of 'I'
12: Mark Sainsbury: English speakers should use "I" to refer to themselves
13: David Owens: Deliberation and the First Person

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Anthony Hatzimoysis, University of Athens

Contributors:
Dorit Bar-On, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
José Luis Bermúdez, Washington University in St Louis
Sven Bernecker, University of California Irvine
Anthony Brueckner, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alex Byrne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gary Ebbs, Indiana University, Bloomington
André Gallois, Syracuse University
Brie Gertler, University of Virginia
Anthony Hatzimoysis, University of Athens
Ram Neta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Owens, University of Sheffield
Mark Sainsbury, University of Texas at Austin
Charles Travis, King's College London
Crispin Wright, University of Aberdeen