Power Search
Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
Transparent Minds: A Study of Self-Knowledge
Contributor(s): Fernandez, Jordi (Author)

View larger image

 ISBN: 0199664021     ISBN-13: 9780199664023
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $109.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2013
Qty:
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Philosophy | Epistemology
Dewey: 126
LCCN: 2013431714
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" L (1.01 lbs) 268 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
We all seem to be capable of telling what our current states of mind are. At any given moment, we know, for example, what we believe, and what we want. But how do we know that? In Transparent Minds, Jordi Fernandez explains our knowledge of our own propositional attitudes. Drawing on the
so-called transparency of belief, he proposes that we attribute beliefs and desires to ourselves based on our grounds for those beliefs and desires. The book argues that this view explains our privileged access to those propositional attitudes. Three applications are drawn from the model of
self-knowledge that emerges: a solution to Moore's paradox, an account of the thought-insertion delusion, and an explanation of self-deception. The puzzles raised by all three phenomena can be resolved, Fernandez argues, if we construe them as failures of self-knowledge. The resulting picture of
self-knowledge challenges the traditional notion that it is a matter of introspection. For the main tenet of Transparent Minds is that we come to know what we believe and desire by looking outward, and attending to the states of affairs which those beliefs and desires are about.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!