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Títol:
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Externalism & self-knowledge: a solution from Sellars |
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Autor/es
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Maitra, Keya
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Matèries en català:
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Filosofia ; Autoestima |
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Matèries en anglès:
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Philosophy ; Self (Philosophy) |
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Abstract:
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[ENG] The renewed interest in self-knowledge in the 1990s has been motivated by the idea that the Selfknowledge thesis might hold the key to defeating the externalist theory of content determination. If what I am thinking about is determined not simply by what goes on inside my mind but also by factors existing outside my mind, as content externalism argues, then it seems that I need to consult the external world before I can know my mind and its occupants. Thus the possibility of direct and privileged knowledge of the contents of one’s own mind seems to be defeated if content externalism is true. A dominant externalist response argues that one knows one’s thoughts and other mental states simply by thinking them while exercising second-order, self-ascriptive powers. This dominant externalist account of privilege of self-knowledge claims has been referred to as the ‘deflationary’ account. Deflationary accounts are faulted for being epistemologically impoverished since in being automatically justified there is no room left for ‘epistemological achievement.’ The goal of my paper is to argue that a truly viable non-deflationist and externalist account of self-knowledge can be articulated from Sellars’s writings. Sellars offers an interesting way of understanding the privilege of self-knowledge claims according to which though the self-knowledge claims enjoy non-inferential privilege, they are nonetheless defeasible and also justifiable. The effectiveness of this account will become evident from comparing its fate against a couple of common worries that have plagued Shoemaker’s very prominent deflationist account. |
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Font:
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Taula 2014, Vol. 46, pp. 77-88 |
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Identificador:
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0214-6657 |
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Tipus de document:
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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Avís legal:
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All rights reserved ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
