We all seem to be capable of telling what our current states of mind
are. At any given moment, we know, for example, what we believe, and
what we want. But how do we know that? In Transparent Minds, Jordi
Fernández explains our knowledge of our own propositional attitudes.
Drawing on the so-called 'transparency' of belief, he proposes that we
attribute beliefs and desires to ourselves based on our grounds for
those beliefs and desires. The book argues that this view explains our
privileged access to those propositional attitudes. Three applications
are drawn from the model of self-knowledge that emerges: a solution to
Moore's paradox, an account of the thought-insertion delusion, and an
explanation of self-deception. The puzzles raised by all three
phenomena can be resolved, Fernández argues, if we construe them as
failures of self-knowledge. The resulting picture of self-knowledge
challenges the traditional notion that it is a matter of
introspection. For the main tenet of Transparent Minds is that we come
to know what we believe and desire by 'looking outward,' and attending
to the states of affairs which those beliefs and desires are about.
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A Study of Self-Knowledge
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ISBN
9780191640650
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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