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Distinctive substantial self-knowledge and the possibility of self-improvement
Quassim Cassam distinguishes between trivial and substantial cases of self-knowledge. At first sight, trivial cases are epistemically distinctive...
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No-‘How’ Privileged Self-Knowledge
Ordinarily, if a person produces a nonreflective, ‘unstudied’ self-attribution of a present mental state – an avowal – we do not presume that they...
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Virtual reality as a path to self-knowledge
I discuss how virtual reality can be used to acquire self-knowledge. Lawlor (Philos Phenomenol Res 79(1):47–75, 2009) and Cassam (Vices of the mind:...
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Track Thyself? The Value and Ethics of Self-knowledge Through Technology
Novel technological devices, applications, and algorithms can provide us with a vast amount of personal information about ourselves. Given that we...
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The Self-Knowledge of Not-Self: On the Problem of Modern Buddhism and the Basic Character of the Buddha’s Teaching
Contemporary proponents of modern Buddhism argue that the Buddha’s teaching, in contrast to later Buddhist-inspired philosophies and folklore, is of...
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Collective vice and collective self-knowledge
Groups can be epistemically vicious just like individuals. And just like individuals, groups sometimes want to do something about their vices. They...
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Socrates’ Search for Self-Knowledge
Early in the Phaedrus, Socrates tells his interlocutor that he does not have time to formulate naturalistic reinterpretations of old stories, because...
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Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge
Donald Davidson famously offered an explanation of “first-person authority” (1984). However, he described first-person authority differently across...
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Self-awareness, Language, and Empirical Knowledge
I argue that the evolution of language had a huge influence on human knowledge and that much of our experiential knowledge evolved into empirical...
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More than Just a Passing Cognitive Show: a Defence of Agentialism About Self-knowledge
This paper contributes to a debate that has arisen in the recent self-knowledge literature between agentialists and empiricists. According to...
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Well-Being, Sociability, and False Consciousness: Radical Politics, Disability, Self-Knowledge, and Subjectivity v Objectivity
This chapter explores sociability, being one of the six ontological features of the human condition identified in Chap. 2...
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The Value of Transparent Self-Knowledge
Questions about the normative significance of ‘transparency’ do not receive much attention, even though they were central to Richard Moran’s (
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The Limits of Self-Knowledge
The aim of this chapter is to strengthen the case against the appeal to personal information as an effective strategy for resolving disagreements by...
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I know how I know: perception, self-awareness, self-knowledge
When a subject has perceptually grounded knowledge, she typically knows how she knows what she knows, and is able to appeal to perceived items and...
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Self-knowledge and the Paradox of Belief Revision
To qualify as a fully rational agent, one must be able rationally to revise one’s beliefs in the light of new evidence. This requires, not only that...
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Towards Collective Self-knowledge
We seem to ascribe mental states and agency to groups. We say ‘Google knows such-and-such,’ or ‘Amazon intends to do such-and-such.’ This observation...
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Abductive Inference, Self-Knowledge, and the Myth of Introspection
Much of the history of psychology can be understood as a debate over what we do when we attribute psychological states to ourselves and to others. In...
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Rethinking and Transforming Language, Knowledge, Self, Society and State and the Calling of Alternative Planetary Futures: Walking and Meditating with Sri Aurobindo
This essay explores the way we can rethink and transform language, knowledge, self, society and state by walking and meditating with Sri Aurobindo....