Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
Expression and Self-Knowledge
Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-927628-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Dorit Bar-On develops and defends a novel view of avowals and self-knowledge. Drawing on resources from the philosophy of language, the theory of action, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, she offers original and systematic answers to many long-standing questions concerning our ability to know our own minds.
We are all very good at telling what states of mind we are in at a given moment. When it comes to our own present states of mind, what we say goes; an avowal such as "I'm feeling so anxious" or "I'm thinking about my next trip to Paris," it is typically supposed, tells it like it is. But why is that? Why should what I say about my present mental states carry so much more weight than what others say about them? Why should avowals be more immune to criticism and correction than other claims we make? And if avowals are not based on any evidence or observation, how could they possibly express our knowledge of our own present mental states?
Bar-On proposes a Neo-Expressivist view according to which an avowal is an act through which a person directly expresses, rather than merely reports, the very mental condition that the avowal ascribes. She argues that this expressivist idea, coupled with an adequate characterization of expression and a proper separation of the semantics of avowals from their pragmatics and epistemology, explains the special status we assign to avowals. As against many expressivists and their critics, she maintains that such an expressivist explanation is consistent with a non-deflationary view of self-knowledge and a robust realism about mental states. The view that emerges preserves many insights of the most prominent contributors to the subject, while offering a new perspective on our special relationship to our own minds.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of philosophy, particularly in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind, also those in related areas of linguistics and cognitive science.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
Weitere Infos & Material
- I: Introduction: The Special Security of Some 'I' Talk
- II: Using 'I' as 'Subject': Cartesian Reference or No Reference?
- III: 'I'-Ascriptions: The Semantic and the Epistemic
- IV: The Epistemic Approach to Avowals' Security: Introspection and Transparency
- V: Content Externalism, Skepticism, and the Recognitional Conception of Self-Knowledge
- VI: The Distinctive Security of Avowals: Ascriptive Immunity to Error Beyond Security in Content Assignment
- VII: Avowals: 'Grammar' and Expression
- VIII: Avowals: Expression, Content, and Truth
- IX: Speaking My Mind: Expression, Truth, and Self-Knowledge
- X: Speaking My Mind: Grammar, Epistemology, and (Some) Ontology
- Bibliography
- Index
