Knowing Want I Want
As it is silly to ask somebody,‘How do you know you are in pain?’ it is equally foolish to ask, ‘How do you know that you want to go to the movies?’ Vendler, Res Cogitans Knowing that one wants to go to the movies is an example of self-knowledge, knowledge of one’s mental states. It may be fooli...
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2012
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| author | Byrne, Alex |
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| description | As it is silly to ask somebody,‘How do you know you are in pain?’ it is equally
foolish to ask, ‘How do you know that you want to go to the movies?’
Vendler, Res Cogitans
Knowing that one wants to go to the movies is an example of self-knowledge, knowledge
of one’s mental states. It may be foolish to ask the man on the Clapham Omnibus how he
knows what he wants, but the question is nonetheless important — albeit neglected by
epistemologists. This paper attempts an answer. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/718192022-10-03T09:39:02Z Knowing Want I Want Byrne, Alex Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Byrne, Alex Byrne, Alex As it is silly to ask somebody,‘How do you know you are in pain?’ it is equally foolish to ask, ‘How do you know that you want to go to the movies?’ Vendler, Res Cogitans Knowing that one wants to go to the movies is an example of self-knowledge, knowledge of one’s mental states. It may be foolish to ask the man on the Clapham Omnibus how he knows what he wants, but the question is nonetheless important — albeit neglected by epistemologists. This paper attempts an answer. 2012-07-25T20:46:12Z 2012-07-25T20:46:12Z 2011-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem 9781107000759 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71819 Byrne, Alex. "Knowing Want I Want." Chapter 7 in Consciousness and the Self: New Essays, Edited by: JeeLoo Liu and John Perry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3652-1492 en_US http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6564920/?site_locale=en_GB Consciousness and the Self (book) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press MIT web domain |
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