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Our Knowledge of the Internal World (Paperback)
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Our Knowledge of the Internal World (Paperback)
Series: Lines of Thought
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On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own
internal world -- of one's current thoughts and feelings -- is the
unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. The philosophical
problem is to explain how we can move beyond this knowledge, how we
can form a conception of an objective world, and how we can know
that the world answers to our conception of it. This book is in the
anti-Cartesian tradition that seeks to reverse the order of
explanation. Robert Stalnaker argues that we can understand our
knowledge of our thoughts and feelings only by viewing ourselves
from the outside, and by seeing our inner lives as features of the
world as it is in itself. He uses the framework of possible worlds
both to articulate a conception of the world as it is in itself,
and to represent the relation between our objective knowledge and
our knowledge of our place in the world. He explores an analogy
between knowledge of one's own phenomenal experience and
self-locating knowledge -- knowledge of who one is, and what time
it is. He criticizes the philosopher's use of the notion of
acquaintance to characterize our intimate epistemic relation to the
phenomenal character of our experience, and explores the tension
between an anti-individualist conception of the contents of thought
and the thesis that we have introspective access to that content.
The conception of knowledge that emerges is a contextualist and
anti-foundationalist one but, it is argued, a conception that is
compatible with realism about both the external and internal
worlds.
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