Authority and Estrangement : an Essay on Self-knowledge.

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Author / Creator:	Moran, Richard.
Imprint:	New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (243 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Self-knowledge, Theory of. Self-knowledge, Theory of. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122433

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ISBN:	9781400842971 1400842972 1283380005 9781283380003
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive relation to his or her own mental life, let alone a privileged one. In Authority and Estrangement, Richard Moran argues for a reconception of the first-person and its claims. Indeed, he writes, a more thorou.
Other form:	Print version: Moran, Richard. Authority and Estrangement : An Essay on Self-knowledge. New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691089454

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