The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry. At the same time, some sort of self-knowledge is often regarded as a necessary condition of our being a human agent or human subject. Thus self-knowledge is taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans’ search for wisdom, and as such it is intricately bound up...(展开全部)

Is self-knowledge is a form of 'privileged access' limited to knowledge of one's mind? Is self-knowledge the same thing as introspection? How do I acquire self-knowledge in the first place? What is the relationship between self-knowledge and personal identity? The problem of self-knowledge is one of the most important of all philosophical puzzles and is closely connected to imp...(展开全部)

Human beings are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless and uncritical, and our beliefs, desires, and other attitudes aren't always as they ought rationally to be. Our beliefs can be eccentric, our desires irrational and our hopes hopelessly unrealistic. Our attitudes are influenced by a wide range of non-epistemic or non-rational factors, including our cha...(展开全部)

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 an...(展开全部)

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 an...(展开全部)

In this broad cultural survey of self-portraiture, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of the genre, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of bearing witness to the prolific self-image-making of todays contemporary artists. His vivid account shows how artists depictions of themselves have been part of a continuing traditio...(展开全部)

The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights—it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles began 40,000 years ago, when striped patterns were engraved on mammoths' bones to keep track of the moon's phases. What routes did human knowledge take to ...(展开全部)

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpres...(展开全部)