Debating self-knowledge / Anthony Brueckner, Gary Ebbs.

"Language users ordinarily suppose that they know what thoughts their own utterances express. We can call this supposed knowledge minimal self-knowledge. But what does it come to? And do we actually have it? Anti-individualism implies that the thoughts which a person's utterances express are partly determined by facts about their social and physical environments. If anti-individualism is true, then there are some apparently coherent sceptical hypotheses that conflict with our supposition that we have minimal self-knowledge. In this book, Anthony Brueckner and Gary Ebbs debate how to characterize this problem and develop opposing views of what it shows. Their discussion is the only sustained, in-depth debate about anti-individualism, scepticism and knowledge of one's own thoughts, and will interest both scholars and graduate students in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology"-- Provided by publisher

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Cover; DEBATING SELF-KNOWLEDGE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 ARGUMENTS FOR ANTI-INDIVIDUALISM; Step one; Step two; 2 MENTAL CONTENT AND INCOMPLETE UNDERSTANDING; 3 OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS; Chapters 1-5; Chapters 6-11; Chapters 12-13; CHAPTER 1: Brains in a vat; 1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 1.4; 1.5; CHAPTER 2: Skepticism, objectivity, and brains in vats; 2.1 PUTNAM'S ARGUMENT; 2.2 MEANING AND LINGUISTIC PRACTICE; 2.3 SKEPTICISM ABOUT JUSTIFICATION; 2.4 SKEPTICISM ABOUT OBJECTIVITY; 2.5 BRUECKNER'S RECONSTRUCTION; 2.6 REMOVING HINTS OF VERIFICATIONISM.

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