Humans are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless, our beliefs eccentric, and our desires irrational. Quassim Cassam develops a new account of self-knowledge which recognises this feature of human life. He argues that self-knowledge is a genuine cognitive achievement, and that self-ignorance is almost always on the cards.
Humans are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless, our beliefs eccentric, and our desires irrational. Quassim Cassam develops a new account of self-knowledge which recognises this feature of human life. He argues that self-knowledge is a genuine cognitive achievement, and that self-ignorance is almost always on the cards.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He was previously Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, and has also taught at Oxford and UCL. He is the author of Self and World (OUP, 1997), The Possibility of Knowledge (OUP, 2007) and, with John Campbell, Berkeley's Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us? (OUP, 2014).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1: Homo Philosophicus 2: The Disparity 3: Substantial Self-Knowledge 4: Self-Knowledge for Philosophers 5: Reality Check 6: Psychological Rationalism 7: Normative Rationalism 8: Predictably Irrational? 9: Looking Outwards 10: Looking Inwards 11: Self-Knowledge and Inference 12: Knowing Your Evidence 13: Knowing Yourself 14: Self-Ignorance 15: The Value of Self-Knowledge Bibliography Index