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Language users ordinarily suppose that they know what thoughts their own utterances express. We can call this supposed knowledge minimal self-knowledge. But what does it come to? And do we actually have it? Anti-individualism implies that the thoughts which a person's utterances express are partly determined by facts about their social and physical environments. If anti-individualism is true, then there are some apparently coherent sceptical hypotheses that conflict with our supposition that we have minimal self-knowledge. In this book, Anthony Brueckner and Gary Ebbs debate how to characterize this problem and develop opposing views of what it shows. Their discussion is the only sustained, in-depth debate about anti-individualism, scepticism and knowledge of one's own thoughts, and will interest both scholars and graduate students in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology.

Advance praise: 'The Brueckner and Ebbs debate, about whether attitude anti-individualism threatens a subject's authority regarding her own thoughts, is a pleasure to read. This book is a must-read for all who followed the debate over the last decade, and the arguments presented here will also invigorate the debate going forward.' Sanford Goldberg, Northwestern University

Introduction
Brains in a vat
Scepticism, objectivity, and brains in vats
Ebbs on scepticism, objectivity, and brains in vats
The dialectical context of Putnam's argument that we are not brains in vats
Trying to get outside your own skin
Can we take our words at face value?
Is scepticism about self-knowledge incoherent?
Is scepticism about self-knowledge coherent?
The coherence of scepticism about self-knowledge
Why scepticism about self-knowledge is self-undermining
Scepticism about self-knowledge redux
Self-knowledge in doubt
Looking back
Bibliography
Index
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ISBN: 9781107017139
ISBN-10: 1107017130
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 244
Published: 21st June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.9  x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.525