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Self-Knowledge and Resentment
Akeel Bilgrami
出版
Harvard University Press
, 2012-03-05
主題
Philosophy / Mind & Body
ISBN
0674064526
9780674064522
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YUkvEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In
Self-Knowledge and Resentment
, Akeel Bilgrami argues that self-knowledge of our intentional states is special among all the knowledges we have because it is not an epistemological notion in the standard sense of that term, but instead is a fallout of the radically normative nature of thought and agency. Four themes or questions are brought together into an integrated philosophical position: What makes self-knowledge different from other forms of knowledge? What makes for freedom and agency in a deterministic universe? What makes intentional states of a subject irreducible to its physical and functional states? And what makes values irreducible to the states of nature as the natural sciences study them? This integration of themes into a single and systematic picture of thought, value, agency, and self-knowledge is essential to the book's aspiration and argument. Once this integrated position is fully in place, the book closes with a postscript on how one might fruitfully view the kind of self-knowledge that is pursued in psychoanalysis.