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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 justifi- ably self-attribute consciously held propositional attitudes such as belief. His study will be of wide interest to philosophers concerned with questions about self-knowledge. Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY The world without, the mind within Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY General editor ERNEST SOSA Advisory editors JON AT HAN DANCY University of Keele GI L B E R T H A R M A N Princeton University F R A N K J A C K S O N Australian National University WI L L I A M G. LYCAN University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill S Y D N E Y S H O E M A K E R Cornell University J U D I T H J.THOMSON Massachusetts Institute of Technology RECENT TITLES WI L L I A M G. LYCAN Judgement and justification G E R A L D D W O R K I N The theory and practice of autonomy M I C H A E L TYE The metaphysics of mind D AV ID o. B R I N K Moral realism and the foundations of ethics w. D. HART Engines of the soul PAUL K. M O S E R Knowledge and evidence D. M. A R M S T R O N G A combinatorial theory of possibility JOHN BISHOP Natural agency C H R I S T O P H E R j . M A L O N E Y The mundane matter of the mental language MARK RICHARD Propositional attitudes G E R A L D E. GAUS Value and justification M A R K H E L L E R Hie ontology of physical objects JOHN B I G E L O W A N D ROBERT P A R G E T T E R Science and necessity FRANCIS S N A R E Morals, motivation and convention CHRISTOPHER s. HILL Sensations JOHN H E I L The nature of true minds C A R L G I N E T On action CONRAD J O H N S O N Moral legislation DAVID O W E N S Causes and coincidences A N D R E W N E W M A N The physical basis of predication MICHAEL J U B I E N Ontology, modality and the fallacy of reference wA R R E N Q u IN N Morality and action JOHN w. C A R R O L L Laws of nature M. j . C R E S S W E L L Language in the world JOSHUA H O F F M A N & GARY s. R O S E N K R A N T Z Substance among other categories PAUL H E L M Belief policies N O A H L E M O S Intrinsic value H E N R Y s. R I C H A R D S O N Practical reasoning aboutf inale nds ROBERT A . W I L S O N Cartesian psychology and physical minds BARRY MAUND Colours MICHAEL DEVITT Coming to our senses A R D A D E N K E L Object and property J O N A T H A N LOWE Subjects of experience Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 The world without, the mind within An essay onf irst-persona uthority Andre Gallois Reader, Department of Philosophy University of Queensland CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1996 First published 1996 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data Gallois, Andre. The world without, the mind within : an essay on first-person authority / Andre Gallois. p. cm. - (Cambridge studies in philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 56093 4 (hardback) 1. Self-knowledge, Theory of. 2. Analysis (Philosophy) 3. Philosophy of mind. I. Title. II. Series. BD450.G266 1997 128'.2-dc20 96-13884 CIP ISBN 0 521 56093 4 hardback Transferred to digital printing 2004 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 For Christie, Julia and Esther Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 Contents Preface page xi Introduction 1 PART I FIRST-PERSON AUTHORITY 13 1 The problem 15 2 Scepticism about first-person authority 31 PART II THE BASIC AND EXTENDED ACCOUNTS 43 3 A preliminary account 45 4 Defending the basic account 64 5 Extending the basic account 84 6 Objections 103 7 The problem of scope 127 PART III SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND CONTENT EXTERNALISM 153 8 Arguments from content externalism 155 9 Deflationary self-knowledge: Davidson and Burge 161 10 Externalism and first-person authority 178 11 Psychological properties as secondary 192 Bibliography 206 Index 209 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010
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