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

In this original and challenging study, Andre Gallois proposes and defends a new 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 to justifiably self-attribute consciously held propositional attitudes such as belief. His study will be of wide interest to philosophers concerned with questions about self-knowledge.

Table des matières

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Gallois Andre, Andre Gallois, André Gallois, Andre (University of Queensland) Gallois, Andri Gallois
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 12.12.1996
• EAN: 9780521560931
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56093-1
• Pages: 228
• Thèmes: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind