Self-Knowledge for Philosophers
Self-Knowledge for Philosophers
Recent philosophical accounts of self-knowledge have concentrated on particular self-knowledge, knowledge of one’s particular mental states. For Burge, particular self-knowledge is necessary for critical reasoning, but Peacocke shows that this is not so. The concentration on particular self-knowledge can also be explained by reference to the suggestion that it is epistemologically distinctive. However, this distinctiveness has frequently been exaggerated by epistemologists, and it is in any case a mistake to allow the agenda for the philosophy of self-knowledge to be set by narrow epistemological concerns. The epistemology of substantial self-knowledge is less straightforward than is generally assumed, and deserves much greater philosophical attention than it has tended to receive.
Keywords: particular self-knowledge, Tyler Burge, Christopher Peacocke, critical reasoning, epistemology, substantial self-knowledge, philosophy
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