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Privileged Self–Knowledge and Externalism: A Contextualist Approach
Author(s) -
Hohwy Jakob
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0114.t01-1-00149
Subject(s) - externalism , contextualism , epistemology , self knowledge , privilege (computing) , internalism and externalism , philosophy , doctrine , sociology , linguistics , computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , computer security , theology
Many people argue that privileged self–knowledge is incompatible with semantic externalism. I develop a contextualist approach to self–knowledge, and examine what this approach should lead us to say about the apparent incompatibility. Though such contextualism compels us to re–think the notion of privilege associated with self–knowledge, it can contain the damage wreaked by the externalist doctrine.