Knowing Our Own Minds

Barry C. Smith is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London.Crispin Wright is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews; he was formerly Nelson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Cynthia Macdonald is Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

• Introduction ; 1. Self-Knowledge: The Wittgensteinian Legacy ; 2. Response to Crispin Wright ; 3. Conscious Attitudes, Attention, and Self-Knowledge ; 4. An Eye Directed Outward ; 5. Externalism and Authoritative Self-Knowledge ; 6. Self-Knowledge: Special Access versus Artefact of Grammar - A Dichotomy Rejected ; 7. Self-Knowledge and Resentment ; 8. Reason and the First Person ; 9. What the Externalist can know A Priori ; 10. Externalism, Twin Earth, and Self-Knowledge ; 11. Externalism, Architecturalism, and Epistemic Warrant ; 12. First-Person Authority and the Internal Reality of Beliefs ; 13. The Simple Theory of Colour and the Transparency of Sense Experience ; 14. On Knowing One's Own Language ; 15. On Knowing One's Own Language ; Index

This excellent and wide ranging collecton of papers contains important and original contributions to the key current debate about the nature and extent of a subject's knowledge of the content of her thoughts and utterances ... This collection constitutes a key resource for those interested in the nature of a subject's knowledge of the content of her thoughts and utterances ... the collection is useful in challenging some of the traditional assumptions about self-knowledge ... For those interested in the compatability of externalism and privileged access, the collection contains new contributions on this topic which will undoubtedly be key to the on-going debate in this area.