Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100 (2):432-452 (2019)
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Pessimists about moral testimony hold that there is something suboptimal about forming moral beliefs by deferring to another. This paper motivates an analogous claim about self-knowledge of the reason-responsive attitudes. When it comes to your own mind, it seems important to know things “from the inside”, in the first-personal way, rather than putting your trust in another. After motivating Pessimism, the paper offers an explanation of its truth. First-person knowledge is distinctive because it involves knowing a state of mind and finding it intelligible from one’s point of view. It concludes by considering the value of this form of self-understanding.
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| Keywords | self-knowledge testimony value of knowledge self-consciousness first-person authority |
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| DOI | 10.1111/papq.12268 |
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