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

• Autore: Stalnaker Robert
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.3
• Soggetto topico: Knowledge, Theory of
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Our knowledge of the internal world
• ISBN: 0-19-959203-9; 1-281-77017-5; 9786611770174; 0-19-156292-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453331103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lines of thought.