Moran Authority and Estrangement

An Essay on Self-Knowledge
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Moran, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Outline of the Chapters xi

Preface xxvii

Acknowledgments xxxvii

CHAPTER ONE The Image of Self-Knowledge 1

1.1 The Fortunes of Self-Consciousness: Descartes, Freud, and Cognitive Science 4

1.2 The Possibility of Self-Knowledge: Introspection, Perception, and Deflation 12

1.3 Constitutive Relations and Detection 20

1.4 "Conscious Belief": Locating the First-Person 27

CHAPTER TWO Making Up Your Mind: Self-Interpretation and Self-Constitution 36

2.1 Self-Interpretation, Objectivity, and Independence 38

2.2 Self-Fulfillment and Its Discontents 42

2.3 The Whole Person's Discrete States 48

2.4 Belief and the Activity of Interpreting 51

2.5 The Process of Self-Creation: Theoretical and Deliberative Questions 55

2.6 Relations of Transparency 60

CHAPTER THREE Self-Knowledge as Discovery and as Resolution 66

3.1 Wittgenstein and Moore's Paradox 69

3.2 Sartre, Self-Consciousness, and the Limits of the Empirical 77

3.3 Avowal and Attribution 88

3.4 Binding and Unbinding 94

CHAPTER FOUR The Authority of Self-Consciousness 100

4.1 Expressing, Reporting, and Avowing 100

4.2 Rationality, Awareness, and Control: A Look Inside 107

4.3 From Supervision to Authority: Agency and the Attitudes 113

4.4 The Retreat to Evidence 120

4.5 First-Person Immediacy and Authority 124

4.6 Introspection and the Deliberative Point of View 134

4.7 Reflection and the Demands of Authority: Apprehension, Arrest, and Conviction 138

4.8 The Reflective Agent 148

CHAPTER FIVE Impersonality, Expression, and the Undoing of Self-Knowledge 152

5.1 Self-Other Asymmetries and Their Skeptical Interpretation 153

5.2 The Partiality of the Impersonal Stance 158

5.3 Self-Effacement and Third-Person Privilege 166

5.4 Paradoxes of Self-Censure 170

5.5 Incorporation and the Expressive Reading 182

5.6 "Not First-Personal Enough?" 187

Bibliography 195

Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Moran is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.