Self-knowing agents / Lucy O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Lucy, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Agent (Philosophy).

Act (Philosophy).

Self-perception.

Awareness.

Physical Description:

x, 231 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Lucy O'Brien argues that a satisfactory account of self-reference and self-knowledge needs to concentrate on our nature as agents. She considers two main questions. First, what account should we give of first-person reference that will respect the guaranteed nature of such reference? Second, in virtue of what should we take certain judgments as judgments about oneself as a self? Clearly written, with rigorous discussion of rival views, this book will be of interest to anyone working in the philosophy of mind and action.

Contents:

Arguments for the no-reference view of 'I'

Perceptual models of first-person reference

The self-reference rule

The agency account

Agent's awareness and knowledge of our mental actions

What are actions?

On knowing one's own actions

Bodily awareness

Bodily awareness and self-knowledge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-226) and index.

ISBN:

0199261482

9780199261482

OCLC:

84150762