Authority and Estrangement
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 re...
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 re...
