Privileged Access: Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780754616474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 288 str.

Gertler, Brie

Opis

How do you grasp the contents of your mind - your desires, your fears, your sensations, your beliefs? We typically think that we are better able to discern our own mental states than others are. But is this correct? And if it is, what explains your special or privileged access to your own states?

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; How do you know you are not a zombie?, Fred Dretske; Dretske's ways of introspecting, William G. Lycan; Representationalism and the transparency of experience, Michael Tye; Knowing what it's like, Joseph Levine; Is introspection inferential?, Murat Aydede; Content and self-knowledge, Paul Boghossian; Conscious attitudes, attention, and self-knowledge, Christopher Peacocke; On knowing one's own mind, Sydney Shoemaker; Self-knowledge and rationality: Shoemaker on self-blindness, Charles Siewert; Wittgenstein's later philosophy of mind: sensation, privacy, and intention, Crispin Wright; Self-knowledge: discovery, resolution, and undoing, Richard Moran; Knowing selves: expression, truth, and knowledge, Dorit Bar-On and Douglas C. Long; The elusiveness thesis, immunity to error through misidentification and privileged access, José Luis Bermúdez; How to draw ontological conclusions from introspective data, Brie Gertler; Consiousness and self-knowledge, Ernest Sosa; Index.

O autorze

Brie Gertler