Our knowledge of the internal world / Robert C. Stalnaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stalnaker, Robert, author.

Series:

Lines of thought.

Lines of thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 148 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

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ISBN:

0-19-959203-9

1-281-77017-5

9786611770174

0-19-156292-0

OCLC:

437093964