A team of leading experts investigate a range of philosophical
issues to do with the self and self-knowledge. Self and
Self-Knowledge focuses on two main problems: how to account for
I-thoughts and the consequences that doing so would have for our
notion of the self; and how to explain subjects' ability to know
the kind of psychological states they enjoy, which
characteristically issues in psychological self-ascriptions. The
first section of the volume consists of essays that, by appealing
to different considerations which range from the normative to the
phenomenological, offer an assessment of the animalist conception
of the self. The second section presents an examination as well as
a defence of the new epistemic paradigm, largely associated with
recent work by Christopher Peacocke, according to which knowledge
of our own mental states and actions should be based on an
awareness of them and of our attempts to bring them about. The last
section explores a range of different perspectives-from
neo-expressivism to constitutivism-in order to assess the view that
self-knowledge is more robust than any other form of knowledge.
While the contributors differ in their specific philosophical
positions, they all share the view that careful philosophical
analysis is needed before scientific research can be fruitfully
brought to bear on the issues at hand. These thought-provoking
essays provide such an analysis and greatly deepen our
understanding of these central aspects of our mentality.
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