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Speaking My Mind - Expression and Self-Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
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Speaking My Mind - Expression and Self-Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
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We are all very good at telling what states of mind we are in at a
given moment. When it comes to our own present states of mind, what
we say goes; an avowal such as "I'm feeling so anxious" or "I'm
thinking about my next trip to Paris," it is typically supposed,
tells it like it is. But why is that? Why should what I say about
my present mental states carry so much more weight than what others
say about them? Why should avowals be more immune to criticism and
correction than other claims we make? And if avowals are not based
on any evidence or observation, how could they possibly express our
knowledge of our own present mental states?
Dorit Bar-On develops and defends a novel view of avowals and
self-knowledge. Drawing on resources from the philosophy of
language, the theory of action, epistemology, and the philosophy of
mind, she offers original and systematic answers to many
long-standing questions concerning our ability to know our own
minds.
Bar-On proposes a Neo-Expressivist view according to which avowals
are expressive acts that have truth-accessible self-ascriptions as
their products. When avowing, a person directly expresses, rather
than merely reports, the very mental condition that the avowal
ascribes. She argues that this expressivist idea, coupled with an
adequate characterization of expression and a proper separation of
the semantics of avowals from their pragmatics and epistemology,
explains the special status we assign to avowals. As against many
expressivists and their critics, she maintains that such an
expressivist explanation is consistent with a non-deflationary view
of self-knowledge and a robust realism about mental states. The
view that emerges preserves many insights of the most prominent
contributors to the subject, while offering a new perspective on
our special relationship to our own minds.
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