THREE CONSIDERATIONS ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND MENTAL TRANSPARENCY

Authors

  • Waldomiro Silva Filho UFBA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v14i2.6715

Keywords:

belief, deliberation, first-person authority, mental content, self-knowledge, transparency.

Abstract

This essay presents the following three brief considerations on self-knowledge and transparency: a) transparency of the mental content is a characteristic trait of self-knowledge; b) the epistemological treatment of transparency of content has obscured the notion of self-knowledge and the space this notions takes in the image we have of a person and human action, and; c) when I say to have a belief, transparency is not a logical or epistemic trait of the first-person speech, but more so an expression of the attitudes for which I am responsible. With this, I intend to suggest that self-knowledge is not knowledge (which can be theoretically justified and guaranteed), but a characteristic of the position of the first-person in relation with thoughts, beliefs, etc. In this sense, I suggest that, parting from the idea of deliberation, an interesting path to discuss the notion of self-knowledge is to investigate every-day communicative experience.

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Author Biography

  • Waldomiro Silva Filho, UFBA
    Pesquisador do CNPq (Produtividade em Pesquisa). Graduado em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (1989), com e Pós-doutorado em Filosofia pela Purdue University, Estados Unidos (2003). Atualmente é professor adjunto da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Sua atividade de pesquisa e ensino se concentra na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Epistemologia, Ceticismo, Filosofia da Mente e Pragmatismo. Publicou e organizou, entre outros, os seguintes livros: Razones e Interpretaciones (com Carlos Caorsi, Ediciones Del Signo, Argentina, 2008), Ensaios sobre Ceticismo (com Plínio Smith, Alameda, 2006), Significado, Verdade, Interpretação: Davidson e a Filosofia (com Plínio Smith, Loyola, 2005), O Ceticismo e a Possibilidade da Filosofia (Unijuí, 2005), Razão Mínima (com Luiz Paulo Rouanet, Unimarco, 2004), Da Interpretação: Ensaios sobre Davidson (2004), Epistemologia e Ensino de Ciências (Arcadia, 2002), Ensaios sobre a Verdade (com textos de Donald Davidson, Unimarco, 2002).

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Published

2010-02-09

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2009): Subjetividade e Vontade

Section

Artigos Originais

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How to Cite

FILHO, W. S. THREE CONSIDERATIONS ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND MENTAL TRANSPARENCY. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, v. 14, n. 2, p. 163–181, 9 Feb.2010.