Authority and Estrangement : an Essay on Self-knowledge.
Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton University Press,
2011.
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| Summary: | Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive relation to his or her own mental life, let alone a privileged one. In Authority and Estrangement, Richard Moran argues for a reconception of the first-person and its claims. Indeed, he writes, a more thorou. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400842971 1400842972 1283380005 9781283380003 |