Self-knowledge and resentment / Akeel Bilgrami.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bilgrami, Akeel, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2012.

Summary:

In Self-Knowledge and Resentment, Akeel Bilgrami argues that self-knowledge of our intentional states is special among all the knowledges we have because it is not an epistemological notion in the standard sense of that term, but instead is a fallout of the radically normative nature of thought and agency.Four themes or questions are brought together into an integrated philosophical position: What makes self-knowledge different from other forms of knowledge? What makes for freedom and agency in a deterministic universe? What makes intentional states of a subject irreducible to its physical and functional states? And what makes values irreducible to the states of nature as the natural sciences study them? This integration of themes into a single and systematic picture of thought, value, agency, and self-knowledge is essential to the book's aspiration and argument. Once this integrated position is fully in place, the book closes with a postscript on how one might fruitfully view the kind of self-knowledge that is pursued in psychoanalysis.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674262065

0674262069

9780674262058

0674262050

OCLC:

1252972991