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

by André Gallois

• ISBN13: 9780521560931
• ISBN10: 0521560934
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this challenging study, Andrè 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	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
PART I FIRST-PERSON AUTHORITY	13	(30)
1 The problem	15	(16)
2 Scepticism about first-person authority	31	(12)
PART II THE BASIC AND EXTENDED ACCOUNTS	43	(110)
3 A preliminary account	45	(19)
4 Defending the basic account	64	(20)
5 Extending the basic account	84	(19)
6 Objections	103	(24)
7 The problem of scope	127	(26)
PART III SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND CONTENT EXTERNALISM	153	(53)
8 Arguments from content externalism	155	(6)
9 Deflationary self-knowledge: Davidson and Burge	161	(17)
10 Externalism and first-person authority	178	(14)
11 Psychological properties as secondary	192	(14)
Bibliography	206	(3)
Index	209