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Self-knowledge and resentment
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Akeel Bilgrami is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780674064522
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, (02 March 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 396
- Weight
- 492 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234.95 x 155.57 x 30 mm
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