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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782494103321

Autore

Stalnaker Robert

Titolo

Our knowledge of the internal world [[electronic resource] /] / Robert C. Stalnaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-959203-9

1-281-77017-5

9786611770174

0-19-156292-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Collana

Lines of thought

Disciplina

121/.3

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-143) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Starting in the middle -- Epistemic possibilities and the knowledge argument -- Locating ourselves in the world -- Notes on models of self-locating belief -- Phenomenal and epistemic indistinguishability -- Acquaintance and essence -- Knowing what one is thinking -- After the fall.

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Stalnaker opposes the traditional view that knowledge of one's own current thoughts and feelings is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. He argues that we can understand our knowledge of our thoughts and feelings only by viewing ourselves from the outside, by seeing our inner lives as features of the world as it is in itself. - ;On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world -- of one's current thoughts and feelings -- is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. The philosophical problem is to explain how we can move beyond this knowledge,