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Transparent Minds - A Study of Self-Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Transparent Minds - A Study of Self-Knowledge (Hardcover)
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We all seem to be capable of telling what our current states of
mind are. At any given moment, we know, for example, what we
believe, and what we want. But how do we know that? In Transparent
Minds, Jordi Fernandez explains our knowledge of our own
propositional attitudes. Drawing on the so-called 'transparency' of
belief, he proposes that we attribute beliefs and desires to
ourselves based on our grounds for those beliefs and desires. The
book argues that this view explains our privileged access to those
propositional attitudes. Three applications are drawn from the
model of self-knowledge that emerges: a solution to Moore's
paradox, an account of the thought-insertion delusion, and an
explanation of self-deception. The puzzles raised by all three
phenomena can be resolved, Fernandez argues, if we construe them as
failures of self-knowledge. The resulting picture of self-knowledge
challenges the traditional notion that it is a matter of
introspection. For the main tenet of Transparent Minds is that we
come to know what we believe and desire by 'looking outward,' and
attending to the states of affairs which those beliefs and desires
are about.
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