Knowing Our Own Minds

Knowledge of one's own sensations desires intentions thoughts beliefs and other attitudes is characteristically different from other kinds of knowledge: it has greater immediacy authority and salience. This volume offers a powerful and comprehensive look at current work on this topic featuring closely interlinked essays by leading figures in the field that examine philosophical questions raised by the distinctive character of self-knowledge relating it to knowledge of other minds to rationality and agency externalist theories of psychological content and knowledge of language.