INVESTIGADORES
LAWLER Diego
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Self-knowledge and Authorship
Autor/es:
LAWLER, DIEGO Y VEGA, JESÚS
Lugar:
Granada
Reunión:
Workshop; Granada Workshop on Self-knowledge and Agency; 2011
Institución organizadora:
Departamento de filosofía I Universidad de Granada
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 analyses the authorship approach in relation to this problematic. It shows its limitations and proposes a reconstruction of such approach in terms of the notion of practical knowledge.
