By Brie Gertler
How have you learnt your individual concepts and emotions? can we have ‘privileged entry’ to our personal minds? Does introspection offer a grab of a considering self or ‘I’?
The challenge of self-knowledge is without doubt one of the so much attention-grabbing in all of philosophy and has an important value for the philosophy of brain and epistemology. during this remarkable creation Brie Gertler assesses the major theoretical ways to self-knowledge, explaining the paintings of some of the key figures within the box: from Descartes and Kant, via to Bertrand Russell and Gareth Evans, in addition to fresh paintings via Tyler Burge, David Chalmers, William Lycan and Sydney Shoemaker.
Beginning with an overview of the excellence among self-knowledge and self-awareness and supplying crucial ancient historical past to the matter, Gertler addresses particular theories of self-knowledge equivalent to the acquaintance concept, the internal feel idea, and the rationalist conception, in addition to best debts of self-awareness. The publication concludes with a serious explication of the dispute among empiricist and rationalist approaches.
Including valuable bankruptcy summaries, annotated extra analyzing and a word list, Self Knowledge is key interpreting for these attracted to philosophy of brain, epistemology, and private identity.
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