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Self-knowledge for humans / Quassim Cassam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassam, Quassim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-knowledge, Theory of.
- Human beings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Humans are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless, our beliefs eccentric, and our desires irrational. Quassim Cassam develops a new account of self-knowledge which recognises this feature of human life. He argues that self-knowledge is a genuine cognitive achievement, and that self-ignorance is almost always on the cards.
- Contents:
- Homo philosophicus
- The disparity
- Substantial self-knowledge
- Self-knowledge for philosophers
- Reality check
- Psychological rationalism
- Normative rationalism
- Predictably irrational?
- Looking outwards
- Looking inwards
- Self-knowledge and inference
- Knowing your evidence
- Knowing yourself
- Self-ignorance
- The value of self-knowledge.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-179311-6
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