INVESTIGADORES
LAWLER Diego
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
First-person, authorship and authority
Autor/es:
LAWLER, DIEGO Y VEGA, JESÚS
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Conferencia; Normativity, Mind and Action; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Instituto de Pensamiento Contemporáneo UNIPE, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Resumen:
Normally, persons know what they are thinking about, feel or pursue. The notion of first-person authority, which has been the topic of much debate in recent discussions of self-knowledge, address this issue. It refers to that authority that we enjoy in beliefs about, and knowledge of certain of our mental states. The mental states in question are beliefs, other propositional attitudes and certain sensations. Common examples of first-person authority are such pieces of knowledge expressed in the following utterances: I am thinking about my wife, I hopde my favourite football team wins the unviersity league, I am worried about Amanda, I have a headache or I believe that investing money in the steel industry produces excellent profits. This paper discusses the authorship perspective on first-person authority, shows its limitations, and proposes a new account for making sense of the authorship´s intuition based on the notion of pratical knowledge.
