Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-knowledge

243 Pages·2011·0.904 MB·English

by  Moran, Richard

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Contents
Outline of the Chapters xi
Preface xxvii
Acknowledgments xxxvii
CHAPTER ONE The Image of Self-Knowledge 1
1.1TheFortunesofSelf-Consciousness:
Descartes,Freud,andCognitiveScience 4
1.2ThePossibilityofSelf-Knowledge:Introspection,
Perception,andDeflation 12
1.3ConstitutiveRelationsandDetection 20
1.4“ConsciousBelief”:LocatingtheFirst-Person 27
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CHAPTER TWO Making Up Your Mind: Self-Interpretation
and Self-Constitution 36
2.1Self-Interpretation,Objectivity,andIndependence 38
2.2Self-FulfillmentandItsDiscontents 42
2.3TheWholePerson’sDiscreteStates 48
2.4BeliefandtheActivityofInterpreting 51
2.5TheProcessofSelf-Creation:Theoreticaland
DeliberativeQuestions 55
2.6RelationsofTransparency 60
CHAPTER THREE Self-Knowledge as Discovery
and as Resolution 66
3.1WittgensteinandMoore’sParadox 69
3.2Sartre,Self-Consciousness,andtheLimitsoftheEmpirical 77
3.3AvowalandAttribution 88
3.4BindingandUnbinding 94
CHAPTER FOUR The Authority of Self-Consciousness 100
4.1Expressing,Reporting,andAvowing 100
4.2Rationality,Awareness,andControl:ALookInside 107
4.3FromSupervisiontoAuthority:AgencyandtheAttitudes 113
4.4TheRetreattoEvidence 120
4.5First-PersonImmediacyandAuthority 124
4.6IntrospectionandtheDeliberativePointofView 134
CONTENTS ix
4.7ReflectionandtheDemandsofAuthority:Apprehension,
Arrest,andConviction 138
4.8TheReflectiveAgent 148
CHAPTER FIVE Impersonality, Expression,
and the Undoing of Self-Knowledge 152
5.1Self-OtherAsymmetriesandTheirSkepticalInterpretation 153
5.2ThePartialityoftheImpersonalStance 158
5.3Self-EffacementandThird-PersonPrivilege 166
5.4ParadoxesofSelf-Censure 170
5.5IncorporationandtheExpressiveReading 182
5.6“NotFirst-PersonalEnough?” 187
Bibliography 195
Index 201