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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791861403321

Autore

Gertler Brie

Titolo

Self-knowledge / / Brie Gertler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-85811-3

1-136-85812-1

1-283-04235-5

9786613042354

0-203-83567-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

New problems of philosophy

Disciplina

126

Soggetti

Self-knowledge, Theory of

Ontology

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; 3 THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF (PURPORTEDLY) SPECIAL SELF-KNOWLEDGE; 4 THE ACQUAINTANCE THEORY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE; 5 THE INNER SENSE THEORY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE; 6 THE RATIONALIST THEORY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE; 7 AWARENESS OF THE SELF; 8 THE DISPUTE BETWEEN EMPIRICISM AND RATIONALISM: A DIAGNOSIS; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

How do you know your own thoughts and feelings? Do we have 'privileged access' to our own minds? Does introspection provide a grasp of a thinking self or 'I'?The problem of self-knowledge is one of the most fascinating in all of philosophy and has crucial significance for the philosophy of mind and epistemology. In this outstanding introduction Brie Gertler assesses the leading theoretical approaches to self-knowledge, explaining the work of many of the key figures in the field: from Descartes and Kant, through to Bertrand Russell and Gareth Evans, as well as recent work by Ty