Knowing Want I Want
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Byrne_Knowing What I Want.pdf
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Author(s)
Byrne, Alex
Date Issued
November 2011
Journal
Consciousness and the Self (book)
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Citation
Byrne, Alex. "Knowing Want I Want." Chapter 7 in Consciousness and the Self: New Essays, Edited by: JeeLoo Liu and John Perry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Abstract
As it is silly to ask somebody,‘How do you know you are in pain?’ it is equally
foolish to ask, ‘How do you know that you want to go to the movies?’
Vendler, Res Cogitans
Knowing that one wants to go to the movies is an example of self-knowledge, knowledge
of one’s mental states. It may be foolish to ask the man on the Clapham Omnibus how he
knows what he wants, but the question is nonetheless important — albeit neglected by
epistemologists. This paper attempts an answer.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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