Transparency and Self-Knowledge

by Alex Byrne

Book Overview

Alex Byrne sets out and defends a theory of self-knowledge-knowledge of one's mental states. Inspired by Gareth Evans' discussion of self-knowledge in his The Varieties of Reference, the basic idea is that one comes to know that one is in a mental state M by an inference from a worldly or environmental premise to the conclusion that one is in M. (Typically the worldly premise will not be about anything mental.) The mind, on this account, is 'transparent':...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192868993
• ISBN13: 9780192868992
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"