Authority and estrangement : an essay on self-knowledge / Richard Moran.
2001
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Title
Authority and estrangement : an essay on self-knowledge / Richard Moran.
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Copyright
©2001
Call Number
BD438.5 .M67 2001
ISBN
0691089442 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691089447 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691089450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691089454 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691089447 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691089450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691089454 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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xxxviii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)45958251
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-200) and index.
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Table of Contents
Outline of the Chapters
Preface
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1
The Image of Self-Knowledge
1
1.1The Fortunes of Self-Consciousness: Descartes, Freud, and Cognitive Science
4
1.2The Possibility of Self-Knowledge: Introspection, Perception, and Deflation
12
1.3Constitutive Relations and Detection
20
1.4"Conscious Belief": Locating the First-Person
27
Ch. 2
Making Up Your Mind: Self-Interpretation and Self-Constitution
36
2.1Self-Interpretation, Objectivity, and Independence
38
2.2Self-Fulfillment and Its Discontents
42
2.3The Whole Person's Discrete States
48
2.4Belief and the Activity of Interpreting
51
2.5The Process of Self-Creation: Theoretical and Deliberative Questions
55
2.6Relations of Transparency
60
Ch. 3
Self-Knowledge as Discovery and as Resolution
66
3.1Wittgenstein and Moore's Paradox
69
3.2Sartre, Self-Consciousness, and the Limits of the Empirical
77
3.3Avowal and Attribution
88
3.4Binding and Unbinding
94
Ch. 4
The Authority of Self-Consciousness
100
4.1Expressing, Reporting, and Avowing
100
4.2Rationality, Awareness, and Control: A Look Inside
107
4.3From Supervision to Authority: Agency and the Attitudes
113
4.4The Retreat to Evidence
120
4.5First-Person Immediacy and Authority
124
4.6Introspection and the Deliberative Point of View
134
4.7Reflection and the Demands of Authority: Apprehension, Arrest, and Conviction
138
4.8The Reflective Agent
148
Ch. 5
Impersonality, Expression, and the Undoing of Self-Knowledge
152
5.1Self-Other Asymmetries and Their Skeptical Interpretation
153
5.2The Partiality of the Impersonal Stance
158
5.3Self-Effacement and Third-Person Privilege
166
5.4Paradoxes of Self-Censure
170
5.5Incorporation and the Expressive Reading
182
5.6"Not First-Personal Enough?"
187
Bibliography
195
Index
201