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Provides a timely and original contribution to the debate surrounding privileged self-knowledge
 
Contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of mind continue to find puzzling the nature and source of privileged self-knowledge: the ordinary and effortless 'first-person' knowledge we have of our own sensations, moods, emotions, beliefs, desires, and hopes.
 
In Expression and Self-Knowledge, Dorit Bar-On and Crispin Wright articulate their joint dissatisfaction with extant accounts of self-knowledge and engage in a sustained and substantial critical debate over the merits of an expressivist approach to the topic. The authors incorporate cutting-edge research while defending their own alternatives to existing approaches to so-called 'first-person privilege'.
 
Bar-On defends her neo-expressivist account, addressing the objection that neo-expressivism fails to provide an adequate epistemology of ordinary self-knowledge, and addresses new objections levelled by Wright. Wright then presents an alternative pluralist approach, and Bar-On argues in response that pluralism faces difficulties neo-expressivism avoids. Providing invaluable insights on a hotly debated topic in epistemology and philosophy of mind, Expression and Self-Knowledge:
* Presents an in-depth debate between two leading philosophers over the expressivist approach
* Offers novel developments and penetrating criticisms of the authors' respective views
* Features two different perspectives on the influential remarks on expression and self-knowledge found in Wittgenstein's later writings
* Includes four jointly written chapters that offer a critical overview of prominent existing accounts, which provide a useful advanced introduction to the subject.
 
Expression and Self-Knowledge is essential reading for epistemologists, philosophers of mind and language, psychologists with an interest in self-knowledge, and researchers and graduate students working in expression, expressivism, and self-knowledge.

Book details

• Full title: Expression and Self-Knowledge
• Author: Bar-On, Dorit (University of Connecticut, USA), Wright, Crispin (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9781118908471
• ID: 43109320
• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Weight: 550 g
• Date of publishing: 21. September 2023

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