The silence of self-knowledge

Philosophical Explorations 16 (1):1-17 (2013)
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Abstract

Gareth Evans famously affirmed an explanatory connection between answering the question whether p and knowing whether one believes that p. This is commonly interpreted in terms of the idea that judging that p constitutes an adequate basis for the belief that one believes that p. This paper formulates and defends an alternative, more modest interpretation, which develops from the suggestion that one can know that one believes that p in judging that p.

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Johannes Roessler
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Knowledge and its limits.Timothy Williamson - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
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Intention, plans, and practical reason.Michael Bratman - 1987 - Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press.

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