• ISBN13: 9781107017139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: March 15, 2012
• Pages: 244
• Original Price: GBP 64.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 522 grams

About the Book 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.