Knowing Our Own Minds (Mind Association Occasional) [Hardcover]

Crispin Wright (Editor), Barry C. Smith (Editor), Cynthia Macdonald (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198236670 | ISBN-13: 978-0198236672 | Publication Date: December 17, 1998

Knowledge of one's own sensations, desires, intentions, thoughts, beliefs, and other attitudes is characteristically different from other kinds of knowledge: it has greater immediacy, authority, and salience. This volume offers a powerful and comprehensive look at current work on this topic, featuring closely interlinked essays by leading figures in the field that examine philosophical questions raised by the distinctive character of self-knowledge, relating it to knowledge of other minds, to rationality and agency, externalist theories of psychological content, and knowledge of language.

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`This excellent and wide ranging collecton of papers contains important and original contributions to the key current debate about the nature and extent of a subject's knowledge of the content of her thoughts and utterances ... This collection constitutes a key resource for those interested in the nature of a subject's knowledge of the content of her thoughts and utterances ... the collection is useful in challenging some of the traditional assumptions about self-knowledge ... For those interested in the compatability of externalism and privileged access, the collection contains new contributions on this topic which will undoubtedly be key to the on-going debate in this area.' Jessica Brown, Mind, Vol.110, No.438, April 2001

About the Author

Crispin Wright is a Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at University of St Andrews. Barry C. Smith is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. Cynthia Macdonald is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Manchester.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 17, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198236670
• ISBN-13: 978-0198236672
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Self-Knowledge Text, September 10, 2002

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This review is from: Knowing Our Own Minds (Mind Association Occasional) (Paperback)

I highly recommend this volume. I consider this essential reading in the philosophy of mind/epistemology. The Wright essay here is actually fairly clear. But this text contains some classic material by Davidson and Burge, et. al.