Subject: Philosophy Book Title: Self-Knowing Agents
Self-Knowing Agents
O'Brien, Lucy
, Department of Philosophy, University College London
Print publication date: 2007
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926148-2
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261482.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926148-2
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261482.001.0001
Abstract:
This book argues that a satisfactory account of first-person reference and self-knowledge needs to concentrate on our nature as agents. It considers two main questions. First, what account of first-person reference can we give that respects the guaranteed nature of such reference? Second, what account can we give of our knowledge of our mental and physical actions?
Keywords: self-reference, self-knowledge, agents, first-person reference, philosophy, mind and action
Keywords: self-reference, self-knowledge, agents, first-person reference, philosophy, mind and action
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction to Part I
2. Arguments for the No-Reference View of ‘I’
3. Perceptual Models of First-Person Reference
4. The Self-Reference Rule
5. The Agency Account
6. Agent's Awareness and Knowledge of Our Mental Actions
7. Introduction to Part II
8. What are Actions?
9. On Knowing One's Own Actions
10. Bodily Awareness
11. Bodily Awareness and Self-Knowledge
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261482.001.0001
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