The World Without, the Mind Within: An Essay on First-Person Authority

by André Gallois

• ISBN13: 9780521050210
• ISBN10: 0521050219
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this challenging study, Andr_ Gallois proposes and defends a thesis about the character of our knowledge of our own intentional states. Taking up issues at the centre of attention in contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and epistemology, he examines accounts of self-knowledge by such philosophers as Donald Davidson, Tyler Burge and Crispin Wright, and advances his own view that, without relying on observation, we are able justifiably to attribute to ourselves propositional attitudes, such as belief, that we consciously hold. His study will be of wide interest to philosophers concerned with questions about self-knowledge.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

First-Person Authority

The problem

Scepticism about first-person authority

The Basic and Extended Accounts

A preliminary account

Defending the basic account

Extending the basic account

Objections

The problem of scope

Self-Knowledge and Content Externalism

Arguments from content externalism

Deflationary self-knowledge: Davidson and Burge

Externalism and first-person authority

Psychological properties as secondary

Bibliography

Index

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