Table of Contents

Preface 1: Homo Philosophicus 2: The Disparity 3: Substantial Self-Knowledge 4: Self-Knowledge for Philosophers 5: Reality Check 6: Psychological Rationalism 7: Normative Rationalism 8: Predictably Irrational? 9: Looking Outwards 10: Looking Inwards 11: Self-Knowledge and Inference 12: Knowing Your Evidence 13: Knowing Yourself 14: Self-Ignorance 15: The Value of Self-Knowledge Bibliography Index

About the Author

Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He was previously Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, and has also taught at Oxford and UCL. He is the author of Self and World (OUP, 1997), The Possibility of Knowledge (OUP, 2007) and, with John Campbell, Berkeley's Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us? (OUP, 2014).

Reviews

`Valuable for those interested in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophical psychology . . . Highly recommended.'
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`a truly fine book. It is clearly and elegantly written, and metes out criticism fairly while developing a number of lines of powerful argument. It demonstrates where most philosophical discussions of self-knowledge have gone astray, puts forward a plausible positive theory of insubstantial self-knowledge, and makes an important start on the project of examining the nature and importance of substantial self-knowledge. It deserves to be widely read.'
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