Speaking My Mind

Expression and Self-Knowledge

Dorit Bar-On (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

2004
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-926320-2 (ISBN)

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Dorit Bar-On develops and defends an original view of avowals and self-knowledge which offers systematic answers to many persistent questions concerning our ability to know our own minds. According to Bar-On's Neo-Expressivist view, avowals - those everyday spontaneous pronouncements that we make about our own present states of mind - are acts through which we directly express, rather than merely report, the very mental conditions the avowals ascribe. Verbal acts of speaking our minds are thus similar to natural expressions, such as sighing, or smiling; they show, rather than simply telling of our present states of mind. Drawing on resources from the philosophy of language and of mind, the theory of action, and epistemology, Bar-On argues, as against many expressivists and their critics, that an expressivist explanation is consistent with a non-deflationary view of self-knowledge and a robust realism about mental states.

I. Introduction: The Special Security of Some 'I' Talk ; II. Using 'I' as 'Subject': Cartesian Reference or No Reference? ; III. 'I'-Ascriptions: The Semantic and the Epistemic ; IV. The Epistemic Approach to Avowals' Security: Introspection and Transparency ; V. Content Externalism, Skepticism, and the Recognitional Conception of Self-Knowledge ; VI. The Distinctive Security of Avowals: Ascriptive Immunity to Error Beyond Security in Content Assignment ; VII. Avowals: 'Grammar' and Expression ; VIII. Avowals: Expression, Content, and Truth ; IX. Speaking My Mind: Expression, Truth, and Self-Knowledge ; X. Speaking My Mind: Grammar, Epistemology, and (Some) Ontology ; Bibliography ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2004
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	829 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-19-926320-5 / 0199263205
ISBN-13	978-0-19-926320-2 / 9780199263202
Zustand	Neuware