Format:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780198238591
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9780191519468
Content:
Being Known is a response to a philosophical challenge which arises for every area of thought: to reconcile a plausible account of what is involved in the truth of statements in a given area with a credible account of how we can know those statements. Christopher Peacocke offers a deeper understanding of the relations between being and knowing, and a new approach to answering such questions as these: Can you really know about the past; about what you arethinking; about what might be; or whether you are free? Or do we have to give up the idea that you can reach the truth in these areas?
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 The Integration Challenge -- 2 Truth, Content, and the Epistemic -- 2.1 The Linking Thesis -- 2.2 Consequences of the Argument for the Linking Thesis -- 2.3 The Linking Thesis and the Integration Challenge -- 2.4 Three Indicators for Solutions -- 2.5 A Look Ahead: Two Styles of Solution -- Appendix. Factive Reasons and Taking a Representational State at Face Value -- 3 The Past -- 3.1 The Property-Identity Link and its Role in Understanding -- 3.2 Past-Tense Truth: Some Metaphysics -- 3.3 Externalist Elements in Understanding the Past Tense -- 3.4 Memory and the Property-Identity Link -- 3.5 'The Explanation by Means of Identity Does Not Work Here': When and How It Does -- 3.6 Realism, Metaphysics, and the Theory of Meaning -- 3.7 Final Observations on the Temporal Case -- 4 Necessity -- 4.1 Problems and Goals -- 4.2 Admissibility, the Principles of Possibility, and the Modal Extension Principle -- 4.3 Other Principles of Possibility and the Truth Conditions of Modal Statements -- 4.4 Modalism, Understanding, Reduction -- 4.5 The Epistemology of Metaphysical Necessity -- 4.6 Against the Thinker-Dependence of Necessity -- 4.7 Neo-Wittgensteinian Challenges -- 4.8 Conclusion and Prospects -- Appendix A. Modal Logic and the Principle-Based Conception -- Appendix B. Relaxing the Assumptions -- 5 Self-Knowledge and Intentional Content -- 5.1 Conscious Attitudes, Self-Ascription, and the Occupation of Attention -- 5.2 First Steps towards a Solution: Rational Sensitivity without Inference -- 5.3 Between Internal Introspectionism and 'No-Reasons' Accounts -- 5.4 Why do these Self-Ascriptions Amount to Knowledge? -- 5.5 Conceptual Redeployment: Supporting the Claim -- 5.6 Three Consequences of Redeployment -- 6 Self-Knowledge and Illusions of Transcendence -- 6.1 Representational Independence -- 6.2 Delta Theories
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6.3 Representational Independence Outside the First Person? -- 6.4 An Illusion and its Source -- 6.5 Self-Knowledge, Subjectlessness, and Reductionist Views -- 7 Freedom -- 7.1 The Classical Problem and the Integration Challenge -- 7.2 An Intuitive Characterization of Freedom -- 7.3 'Could Have Done Otherwise': The Closeness Account -- 7.4 A Puzzling Inference -- 7.5 The Closeness Conception Elaborated -- 7.6 Non-Theoretical Construals of Freedom -- 7.7 Libertarianism -- 7.8 The Epistemology of Freedom -- 7.9 Neither Too Much nor Too Little? -- 8 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Additional Edition:
Print version Peacocke, Christopher Being Known Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c1999 ISBN 9780198238591
Language:
English
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