The world without, the mind within : an essay on first-person authority
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The world without, the mind within : an essay on first-person authority
（Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa）
Cambridge University Press, 1996
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 206-208
Includes index
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In this challenging study, Andre Gallois proposes and defends a thesis about the character of our knowledge of our own intentional states. Taking up issues at the centre of attention in contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and epistemology, he examines accounts of self-knowledge by such philosophers as Donald Davidson, Tyler Burge and Crispin Wright, and advances his own view that, without relying on observation, we are able justifiably to attribute to ourselves propositional attitudes, such as belief, that we consciously hold. His study will be of wide interest to philosophers concerned with questions about self-knowledge.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. First-Person Authority: 1. The problem
- 2. Scepticism about first-person authority
- Part II. The Basic and Extended Accounts: 3. A preliminary account
- 4. Defending the basic account
- 5. Extending the basic account
- 6. Objections
- 7. The problem of scope
- Part III. Self-Knowledge and Content Externalism: 8. Arguments from content externalism
- 9. Deflationary self-knowledge: Davidson and Burge
- 10. Externalism and first-person authority
- 11. Psychological properties as secondary
- Bibliography
- Index.
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