Introspection and consciousness / edited by Declan Smithies and Daniel Stoljar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smithies, Declan, editor.

Stoljar, Daniel, editor.

Series:

Philosophy of mind series.

Philosophy of mind

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 425 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until recently, questions in epistemology and the philosophy of mind were pursued largely in isolation from one another. This volume aims to integrate these two lines of research by bringing together 14 new essays and one reprinted essay on the relationship between introspection, self-knowledge, and consciousness.

Contents:

Introspection, what? / Eric Schwitzgebel

Awareness and authority: skeptical doubts about self-knowledge / Fred Dretske

Knowledge of perception / Daniel Stoljar

Renewed acquaintance / Brie Gertler

On the phenomenology of introspection / Charles Stewart

The epistemology of introspection / Ernest Sosa

Knowing what I see / Alex Byrne

Self-knowledge, 'transparency', and the forms of activity / Richard Moran

Self-intimation and second-order belief / Sydney Shoemaker

A simple theory of introspection / Declan Smithies

Judgment as a guide to belief / Nicolas Silins

Discrimination and self-knowledge / Patrick Greenough

Introspection, explanation, and perceptual experience: resisting metaphysical disjunctivism / Aaron Zimmerman

Mind-independence and visual phenomenology / Maja Spener

Introspection about phenomenal consciousness: running the gamut from infallibility to impotence / Terry Horgan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 12, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-68015-6

9786613657084

0-19-990925-3

OCLC:

794904124