Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge

by Richard Moran and Richard Moran

Book Overview

Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive relation to his or her own mental life, let alone a privileged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691089450
• ISBN13: 9780691089454
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"