Self-Knowledge and Resentment

Informationen zum Autor Akeel Bilgrami is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. What Makes Self-Knowledge Special? 2. The Conceptual Basis for Transparency I: A Normative Conception of Agency 3. The Conceptual Basis for Transparency II: Evaluation! Agency and the Irrelevance of Cause 4. The Conceptual Basis for Authority I: Agency! Intentionality and the First Person Point of View 5. The Conceptual Basis for Authority II: Intentionality! Causality! and the Duality of Perspectives 6. Conclusion Appendix I: When Self-Knowledge Is Not Special (with a Short Essay on Psychoanalysis) Appendix II. Does the Debate Between Internal and External Reasons Rest on a Mistake? Notes Index

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• Authors: Akeel Bilgrami
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2012
• EAN: 9780674064522
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06452-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge