{"product_id":"authority-and-estrangement-9780691089454","title":"Authority and Estrangement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince Socrates, and through Descartes onwards, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. This book argues for a reconception of the first-person and its claims. It develops a view of self-knowledge that concentrates on the self as agent rather than spectator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Authority and Estrangement is simply one of the most striking and original books in the Philosophy of Mind written in the last ten years. It is a terrific book. It has been anticipated for a long time, and it will not disappoint. In quality of content, it is first rate through and through. Moreover, it is positively exciting to read.\" - George Wilson, University of California at Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutline of the Chapters xi  Preface xxvii  Acknowledgments xxxvii  CHAPTER ONE The Image of Self-Knowledge 1  1.1 The Fortunes of Self-Consciousness: Descartes, Freud, and Cognitive Science 4  1.2 The Possibility of Self-Knowledge: Introspection, Perception, and Deflation 12  1.3 Constitutive Relations and Detection 20  1.4 \"Conscious Belief\": Locating the First-Person 27  CHAPTER TWO Making Up Your Mind: Self-Interpretation and Self-Constitution 36  2.1 Self-Interpretation, Objectivity, and Independence 38  2.2 Self-Fulfillment and Its Discontents 42  2.3 The Whole Person's Discrete States 48  2.4 Belief and the Activity of Interpreting 51  2.5 The Process of Self-Creation: Theoretical and Deliberative Questions 55  2.6 Relations of Transparency 60  CHAPTER THREE Self-Knowledge as Discovery and as Resolution 66  3.1 Wittgenstein and Moore's Paradox 69  3.2 Sartre, Self-Consciousness, and the Limits of the Empirical 77  3.3 Avowal and Attribution 88  3.4 Binding and Unbinding 94  CHAPTER FOUR The Authority of Self-Consciousness 100  4.1 Expressing, Reporting, and Avowing 100  4.2 Rationality, Awareness, and Control: A Look Inside 107  4.3 From Supervision to Authority: Agency and the Attitudes 113  4.4 The Retreat to Evidence 120  4.5 First-Person Immediacy and Authority 124  4.6 Introspection and the Deliberative Point of View 134  4.7 Reflection and the Demands of Authority: Apprehension, Arrest, and Conviction 138  4.8 The Reflective Agent 148  CHAPTER FIVE Impersonality, Expression, and the Undoing of Self-Knowledge 152  5.1 Self-Other Asymmetries and Their Skeptical Interpretation 153  5.2 The Partiality of the Impersonal Stance 158  5.3 Self-Effacement and Third-Person Privilege 166  5.4 Paradoxes of Self-Censure 170  5.5 Incorporation and the Expressive Reading 182  5.6 \"Not First-Personal Enough?\" 187  Bibliography 195  Index 201","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403718828375,"sku":"9780691089454","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691089454.jpg?v=1730484346","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/authority-and-estrangement-9780691089454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}