Knowing that I am Thinking [chapter]
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Byrne Knowing that I am Thinking (corrected).pdf
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Byrne, Alex
Date Issued
April 2011
Journal
Self-Knowledge [book]
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation
Byrne, Alex. "Knowing that I am thinking" Chapter 5 in 'Self-Knowledge' Edited by Anthony Hatzimoysis. Oxford, Eng: Oxford Univ. Press., (Apr. 2011). 320 pages.
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Abstract
Introduction
We often know that we are thinking, and what we are thinking about. Here ‘thinking’ is not
supposed to be an umbrella term for cognition in general, but should be taken in roughly the
sense of ‘a penny for your thoughts’: mental activities like pondering, ruminating,
wondering, musing and daydreaming all count as thinking. In the intended sense of
‘thinking’, thinking is not just propositional: in addition to thinking that p, there is thinking of (or about) x. Belief is necessary but not sufficient for thinking that p: thinking that p entails believing that p, but not conversely.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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