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Transparency and Self-Knowledge

Contributor(s): Byrne, Alex (Author)

ISBN: 9780198821618

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Pub Date: June 26, 2018

LCCN: 2017955477

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 9.30" L x 6.20" W ( 1.14 lbs) 240 pages

BISAC Categories:

Philosophy | Mind and Body | Epistemology

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Description: You know what someone else is thinking and feeling by observing them. But how do you know what you are thinking and feeling? This is the problem of self-knowledge: Alex Byrne tries to solve it. The idea is that you know this not by taking a special kind of look at your own mind, but by an inference from a premise about your environment.

Review Quotes: "Byrne glides easily through the historical and contemporary literature on self-knowledge, and he culminates in an account of self-knowledge that is "uniformly detectivist, inferential, and economical, and the direction of inference is always from world to mind" (from the preview). The bibliography is impressive. Summing up: Highly recommended" -- CHOICE

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