The World Without, the Mind Within
Subtitle: An Essay on First-Person Authority (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780521560931
Subjects: Philosophy Of Mind; Self-knowledge, Theory of; Movements - Humanism; Philosophy; Mind & Body; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / Humanism; Philosophy : Mind & Body; Metaphysics; Analysis (Philosophy)
First sentence: Various characterizations of first-person authority have been offered in the literature.
Description: In this original and challenging study, Andre Gallois proposes and defends a new 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 to justifiably self-attribute consciously held propositional attitudes such as belief. His study will be of wide interest to philosophers concerned with questions about self-knowledge.