Our Knowledge of the Internal World - Robert C. Stalnaker
Our Knowledge of the Internal World - Robert C. Stalnaker On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world - of one's current thoughts and feelings - is the unproblematic…
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Our Knowledge of the Internal World - Robert C. Stalnaker
On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world - of one's current thoughts and feelings - is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. This book is in the anti-Cartesian tradition that seeks to reverse the order of explanation. The philosophical problem is to explain how we can move beyond this knowledge, how we can form a conception of an objective world, and how we can know that the world answers to our conception of it.
Robert Stalnaker argues that we can understand our knowledge of our thoughts and feelings only by viewing ourselves from the outside, a