Self-Knowledge for Humans

Zusatztext I highly recommend Cassam's book. It provides a deep, yet admirably accessible study of self-knowledge and surrounding issues, and is full of helpful and often surprising insights. Informationen zum Autor Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He was previously Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, and has also taught at Oxford and UCL. He is the author of Self and World (OUP, 1997), The Possibility of Knowledge (OUP, 2007) and, with John Campbell, Berkeley's Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us? (OUP, 2014). Klappentext Humans are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless, our beliefs eccentric, and our desires irrational. Quassim Cassam develops a new account of self-knowledge which recognises this feature of human life. He argues that self-knowledge is a genuine cognitive achievement, and that self-ignorance is almost always on the cards. Zusammenfassung Humans are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless, our beliefs eccentric, and our desires irrational. Quassim Cassam develops a new account of self-knowledge which recognises this feature of human life. He argues that self-knowledge is a genuine cognitive achievement, and that self-ignorance is almost always on the cards. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Homo Philosophicus 2: The Disparity 3: Substantial Self-Knowledge 4: Self-Knowledge for Philosophers 5: Reality Check 6: Psychological Rationalism 7: Normative Rationalism 8: Predictably Irrational? 9: Looking Outwards 10: Looking Inwards 11: Self-Knowledge and Inference 12: Knowing Your Evidence 13: Knowing Yourself 14: Self-Ignorance 15: The Value of Self-Knowledge Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Quassim Cassam, Quassim (University of Warwick) Cassam, Cassam Quassim
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2016
• EAN: 9780198776680
• ISBN: 978-0-19-877668-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge