Speaking my mind : expression and self-knowledge / Dorit Bar-On.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bar-On, Dorit, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages)

Other Title:

Expression and self-knowledge

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dorit Bar-On develops and defends an original view of avowals and self-knowledge which offers systematic answers to many persistent questions concerning our ability to know our own minds. According to Bar-On's Neo-Expressivist view, avowals - those everyday spontaneous pronouncements that we make about our own present states of mind - are acts through which we directly express, rather than merely report, the very mental conditions the avowals ascribe. Verbal acts of speaking ourminds are thus similar to natural expressions, such as sighing, or smiling; they show, rather than simply telling of

Contents:

Introduction : the special security of some "I" talk

Using "I" as subject : Cartesian reference or no reference?

"I"-ascriptions: the semantic and the epistemic

The epistemic approach to avowals security : introspection and transparency

Content externalism, skepticism and the recognitional conception of self-knowledge

The distinctive security of avowals: ascriptive immunity to error

Avowals: 'grammar' and expression

Avowals: expression, content and truth

Speaking my mind: expression, through and self-knowledge

Speaking my mind : grammar, epistemology and (some) ontology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-438) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-160289-2

1-4356-2221-9

9786611198435

0-19-153242-8

1-281-19843-9

OCLC:

191827352