Knowing Our Own Minds

Barry C. Smith is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London.Crispin Wright is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews; he was formerly Nelson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Cynthia Macdonald is Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

This excellent and wide ranging collecton of papers contains important and original contributions to the key current debate about the nature and extent of a subject's knowledge of the content of her thoughts and utterances ... This collection constitutes a key resource for those interested in the nature of a subject's knowledge of the content of her thoughts and utterances ... the collection is useful in challenging some of the traditional assumptions about self-knowledge ... For those interested in the compatability of externalism and privileged access, the collection contains new contributions on this topic which will undoubtedly be key to the on-going debate in this area.

• Introduction ; 1. Self-Knowledge: The Wittgensteinian Legacy ; 2. Response to Crispin Wright ; 3. Conscious Attitudes, Attention, and Self-Knowledge ; 4. An Eye Directed Outward ; 5. Externalism and Authoritative Self-Knowledge ; 6. Self-Knowledge: Special Access versus Artefact of Grammar - A Dichotomy Rejected ; 7. Self-Knowledge and Resentment ; 8. Reason and the First Person ; 9. What the Externalist can know A Priori ; 10. Externalism, Twin Earth, and Self-Knowledge ; 11. Externalism, Architecturalism, and Epistemic Warrant ; 12. First-Person Authority and the Internal Reality of Beliefs ; 13. The Simple Theory of Colour and the Transparency of Sense Experience ; 14. On Knowing One's Own Language ; 15. On Knowing One's Own Language ; Index