Name: Knowing Our Own Minds By Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)
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Knowing Our Own Minds by Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

Self-knowledge is the focus of considerable attention from philosophers: Knowing Our Own Minds gives a much-needed overview of current work on the subject, bringing together new essays by leading figures. Knowledge of one's own sensations, desires, intentions, thoughts, beliefs, and other attitudes is characteristically different from other kinds of knowledge, such as knowledge of other people's mental attributes: it has greater immediacy, authority, and salience. The first six chapters examine philosophical questions raised by these features of self-knowledge. The next two look at the role of our knowledge of our own psychological states in our functioning as rational agents. The third group of essays examine the tension between the distinctive characteristics of self-knowledge and arguments that psychological content is externally - socially and environmentally - determined. The final pair of chapters extend the discussion to knowledge of one's own language. Together these original, stimulating, and closely interlinked essays demonstrate the special relevance of self-knowledge to a broad range of issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

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This excellent and wide ranging collecton of papers contains important and original contributions to the key current debate about the nature and extent of a subject's knowledge of the content of her thoughts and utterances ... This collection constitutes a key resource for those interested in the nature of a subject's knowledge of the content of her thoughts and utterances ... the collection is useful in challenging some of the traditional assumptions about self-knowledge ... For those interested in the compatability of externalism and privileged access, the collection contains new contributions on this topic which will undoubtedly be key to the on-going debate in this area. * Jessica Brown, Mind, Vol.110, No.438, April 2001 *

About Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

Barry C. Smith is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. Crispin Wright is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews; he was formerly Nelson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Cynthia Macdonald is Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Introduction ; 1. Self-Knowledge: The Wittgensteinian Legacy ; 2. Response to Crispin Wright ; 3. Conscious Attitudes, Attention, and Self-Knowledge ; 4. An Eye Directed Outward ; 5. Externalism and Authoritative Self-Knowledge ; 6. Self-Knowledge: Special Access versus Artefact of Grammar - A Dichotomy Rejected ; 7. Self-Knowledge and Resentment ; 8. Reason and the First Person ; 9. What the Externalist can know A Priori ; 10. Externalism, Twin Earth, and Self-Knowledge ; 11. Externalism, Architecturalism, and Epistemic Warrant ; 12. First-Person Authority and the Internal Reality of Beliefs ; 13. The Simple Theory of Colour and the Transparency of Sense Experience ; 14. On Knowing One's Own Language ; 15. On Knowing One's Own Language ; Index

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Title

Knowing Our Own Minds by Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

Author

Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

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Mind Association Occasional Series

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Oxford University Press

Year published

2000-10-19

Number of pages

460

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Knowing Our Own Minds Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

Knowing Our Own Minds by Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

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Knowing Our Own Minds by Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

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About Crispin Wright (Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

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