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Authority and Estrangement An Essay on Self-Knowledge

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ISBN-10: 0691089450

ISBN-13: 9780691089454

Edition: 2002

Authors: Richard Moran

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Blending philosophy of mind and moral psychology, this text develops a view of self-knowledge concentrating on the self as agent rather than spectator. The author draws on themes from Wittgenstein, Sartre and various other philosophers.
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Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Outline of the Chapters
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Image of Self-Knowledge
The Fortunes of Self-Consciousness: Descartes, Freud, and Cognitive Science
The Possibility of Self-Knowledge: Introspection, Perception, and Deflation
Constitutive Relations and Detection
"Conscious Belief": Locating the First-Person
Making Up Your Mind: Self-Interpretation and Self-Constitution
Self-Interpretation, Objectivity, and Independence
Self-Fulfillment and Its Discontents
The Whole Person's Discrete States
Belief and the Activity of Interpreting
The Process of Self-Creation: Theoretical and Deliberative Questions
Relations of Transparency
Self-Knowledge as Discovery and as Resolution
Wittgenstein and Moore's Paradox
Sartre, Self-Consciousness, and the Limits of the Empirical
Avowal and Attribution
Binding and Unbinding
The Authority of Self-Consciousness
Expressing, Reporting, and Avowing
Rationality, Awareness, and Control: A Look Inside
From Supervision to Authority: Agency and the Attitudes
The Retreat to Evidence
First-Person Immediacy and Authority
Introspection and the Deliberative Point of View
Reflection and the Demands of Authority: Apprehension, Arrest, and Conviction
The Reflective Agent
Impersonality, Expression, and the Undoing of Self-Knowledge
Self-Other Asymmetries and Their Skeptical Interpretation
The Partiality of the Impersonal Stance
Self-Effacement and Third-Person Privilege
Paradoxes of Self-Censure
Incorporation and the Expressive Reading
"Not First-Personal Enough?"
Bibliography
Index