World Without, the Mind Within - An Essay on First-Person Authority

Klappentext A challenging study of the character of our knowledge of our own intentional states. Zusammenfassung In this challenging study, André Gallois examines issues at the centre of attention in contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and epistemology, and advances a thesis about the character of our knowledge of our own intentional states. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Gallois Andre, Andra Gallois, Andre Gallois, André Gallois, Andre (University of Queensland) Gallois
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521050210
• ISBN: 978-0-521-05021-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind