Rethinking Introspection [electronic resource] : A Pluralist Approach to the First-Person Perspective /
Butler, J.author.
Offering a pluralist framework for understanding the nature, scope, and limits of self-knowledge from the first-person perspective, Rethinking Introspection argues that, contrary to common misconceptions, introspection does not operate through inner perception but rather develops out of a diverse array of mental states and cognitive processes.
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Series Editorsâ€? Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Introspection as Inner Perception""; ""Historical overview""; ""Perceptual models of introspection in Psychology""; ""Inner perception in contemporary philosophy of mind""; ""2 Poking Out the Inner Eye""; ""Is there a mindâ€?s eye in the brain?""; ""What are the objects of mental perception?""; ""Do mental states exhibit perceptual qualia?""; ""Perception, evolution, and knowledge of minds""; ""Perception and recursion""
""Introspection and attention""""3 Introspection as a Metaphor""; ""The prominence of perceptual metaphor""; ""What is introspection?""; ""The diversity of introspection""; ""4 Knowing Our Own Consciousness""; ""Knowing what it is like""; ""The inadequacy of standard models of phenomenal knowledge""; ""The existential constitution model of phenomenal knowledge""; ""Objections and clarifications""; ""Putting skepticism of self-knowledge in its place""; ""Conclusion""; ""5 Introspection through Cognition""; ""Representation, metarepresentation, and misrepresentation""
""Conceptualizing our own mental states""""Attention and introspection""; ""Introspection and the extended mind""; ""Conclusion""; ""6 Understanding Our Own Beliefs and Desires""; ""Folk psychology and first-person authority""; ""The theory theory challenge to first-person authority""; ""Empirical evidence of theory-mediated introspection""; ""Mind-monitoring mechanisms and the phenomenology of propositional attitudes""; ""Conclusion""; ""7 The Internal Monologue""; ""Knowing our own thoughts through language""; ""Objections and clarifications""
""Kinds of self-knowledge enabled by inner speech""""From self-determined truth to self-deception and back""; ""Conclusion""; ""8 On the Social Side of Self-Knowledge""; ""Social self-knowledge""; ""Navigating oneâ€?s position in social space""; ""Direct and indirect testimony about oneself""; ""Bias and the rationality of testimonial deference""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion: Is That All There Is?""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Offering a pluralist framework for understanding the nature, scope, and limits of self-knowledge from the first-person perspective, Rethinking Introspection argues that, contrary to common misconceptions, introspection does not operate through inner perception but rather develops out of a diverse array of mental states and cognitive processes.
Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive psychology.
Philosophy of Mind.
Cognitive Psychology.