Self-Knowledge and the Self

Self-Knowledge and the Self
Title Self-Knowledge and the Self PDF eBook
Author David A Jopling
Publisher Routledge
Pages 194
Release 2002-09-11
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1135958386

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In this clear and reasoned discussion of self- knowledge and the self, the author asks whether it is really possible to know ourselves as we really are. He illuminates issues about the nature of self-identity which are of fundamental importance in moral psychology, epistemology and literary criticism. Jopling focuses on the accounts of Stuart Hampshire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Rorty, and dialogical philosophical psychology and illustrates his argument with examples from literature, drama and psychology.

The Self and Self-Knowledge

The Self and Self-Knowledge
Title The Self and Self-Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Annalisa Coliva
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages
Release 2012-04-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0191631264

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A team of leading experts investigate a range of philosophical issues to do with the self and self-knowledge. Self and Self-Knowledge focuses on two main problems: how to account for I-thoughts and the consequences that doing so would have for our notion of the self; and how to explain subjects' ability to know the kind of psychological states they enjoy, which characteristically issues in psychological self-ascriptions. The first section of the volume consists of essays that, by appealing to different considerations which range from the normative to the phenomenological, offer an assessment of the animalist conception of the self. The second section presents an examination as well as a defence of the new epistemic paradigm, largely associated with recent work by Christopher Peacocke, according to which knowledge of our own mental states and actions should be based on an awareness of them and of our attempts to bring them about. The last section explores a range of different perspectives—from neo-expressivism to constitutivism—in order to assess the view that self-knowledge is more robust than any other form of knowledge. While the contributors differ in their specific philosophical positions, they all share the view that careful philosophical analysis is needed before scientific research can be fruitfully brought to bear on the issues at hand. These thought-provoking essays provide such an analysis and greatly deepen our understanding of these central aspects of our mentality.

Handbook of Self-Knowledge

Handbook of Self-Knowledge
Title Handbook of Self-Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Simine Vazire
Publisher Guilford Press
Pages 482
Release 2012-06-20
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1462505112

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An exploration of self-knowledge looks at current research on how people perceive their own thoughts, feelings, traits, and behavior, with coverage encompassing the mental, behavioral, biological, and social structures that underlie self-knowledge.

Transparency and Self-Knowledge

Transparency and Self-Knowledge
Title Transparency and Self-Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Alex Byrne
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 240
Release 2018-04-13
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0192554735

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Alex Byrne sets out and defends a theory of self-knowledge-knowledge of one's mental states. Inspired by Gareth Evans' discussion of self-knowledge in his The Varieties of Reference, the basic idea is that one comes to know that one is in a mental state M by an inference from a worldly or environmental premise to the conclusion that one is in M. (Typically the worldly premise will not be about anything mental.) The mind, on this account, is 'transparent': self-knowledge is achieved by an 'outward glance' at the corresponding tract of the world, not by an 'inward glance' at one's own mind. Belief is the clearest case, with the inference being from 'p' to 'I believe that p'. One serious problem with this idea is that the inference seems terrible, because 'p' is at best very weak evidence that one believes that p. Another is that the idea seems not to generalize. For example, what is the worldly premise corresponding to 'I intend to do this', or 'I feel a pain'? Byrne argues that both problems can be solved, and explains how the account covers perception, sensation, desire, intention, emotion, memory, imagination, and thought. The result is a unified theory of self-knowledge that explains the epistemic security of beliefs about one's mental states (privileged access), as well as the fact that one has a special first-person way of knowing about one's mental states (peculiar access).

Ourselves

Ourselves
Title Ourselves PDF eBook
Author Charlotte M. Mason
Publisher
Pages 516
Release 1921
Genre
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Self-Knowledge

Self-Knowledge
Title Self-Knowledge PDF eBook
Author The School of Life
Publisher School of Life
Pages 96
Release 2018-11-06
Genre Consciousness
ISBN 9780995753501

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An examination of the importance of self-knowledge, providing practical exercises to aid self-discovery.

Self-Knowledge and Resentment

Self-Knowledge and Resentment
Title Self-Knowledge and Resentment PDF eBook
Author Akeel Bilgrami
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 417
Release 2012-03-05
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0674064526

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In Self-Knowledge and Resentment, Akeel Bilgrami argues that self-knowledge of our intentional states is special among all the knowledges we have because it is not an epistemological notion in the standard sense of that term, but instead is a fallout of the radically normative nature of thought and agency. Four themes or questions are brought together into an integrated philosophical position: What makes self-knowledge different from other forms of knowledge? What makes for freedom and agency in a deterministic universe? What makes intentional states of a subject irreducible to its physical and functional states? And what makes values irreducible to the states of nature as the natural sciences study them? This integration of themes into a single and systematic picture of thought, value, agency, and self-knowledge is essential to the book's aspiration and argument. Once this integrated position is fully in place, the book closes with a postscript on how one might fruitfully view the kind of self-knowledge that is pursued in psychoanalysis.