<p>Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challen
Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-knowledge
โ Scribed by Moran, Richard
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 243
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Subjects
PHILOSOPHY--Epistemology;Electronic books;PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology
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