Class Year
2013
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
2013
Department 1
Philosophy
Abstract
In his recent book, The Opacity of Mind, Peter Carruthers advances a skeptical theory of self-knowledge, integrating results from experimental psychology and cognitive science. In this essay, I want to suggest that the situation is not quite as dire as Carruthers makes it out to be. I respond to Carruthers by advancing a constitutive theory of self-knowledge. I argue that self-knowledge, so understood, is not only compatible with the empirical research that Carruthers utilizes, but also helps to make sense of these results.
Copyright Note
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Recommended Citation
Hill, John C., "Carruthers and Constitutive Self-Knowledge" (2013). Student Publications. 63.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/63