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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"self-knowledge"”.
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Self-knowledge in Alcibiades I
This dissertation explores the topic of self-knowledge as it is presented in *Alcibiades I*. Although self-knowledge is widely recognised as the unifying topic of the dialogue, it has proved difficult to derive one unified conception of self-knowledge from it. I argue that this is partly because …
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Self-identification and self-knowledge
The traditional view has it that self-locating beliefs are distinctive in that they have distinctive contents. Against this, I claim that the distinctive element of self-locating beliefs should be placed outside contents. If someone believes that he himself is hungry, he not only has a …
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Epistemic Norms, A Priority, and Self-Knowledge
This thesis is primarily focussed on developing a novel characterisation of the distinction between a priori and a posteriori justification. My working hypothesis is that we can make a surprising amount of progress in this field by paying attention to the structure of epistemic norms. I argue that …
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Self-knowledge and the diagnostic value of one's actions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Does Simulation Enhance or Inhibit the Development of Self-Knowledge?
… enhanced or inhibited the development of student self-knowledge. In the context of this thesis, self-knowledge can be considered as the aggregation of wisdom derived from internal and external stimuli that informs a substantial comprehension of one’s character, values, abilities, aptitudes, …
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Understanding ourselves: character and self-knowledge in Conrad and Shopenhauer
… salvation and will-denial. The second focuses on self-knowledge and character, which leads to self-fulfilment and accommodation with the world. It is the latter strand, with character at its core, where the interests of the philosopher and creative writer coincide. My methodology is different from …
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Berkeley on the Source of Self-Knowledge: Introspection and Causal Maxim
… commentators agree that Berkeley’s theory of self-awareness depends on some type of direct introspective access to the self. In this paper, I challenge this consensus view, arguing that Berkeley’s theory does not claim that there is direct introspective access to the self until after his first …
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Action, Motive, and Self-Knowledge—An Inquiry into the Uncertain Agent
… state of ignorance or uncertainty to a state of self-knowledge. This process is what I call ‘self-inquiry’. Yet, many philosophers subscribe to a model of self-knowledge which gives no substantial role to such self-inquiry into our motives. Either our wills are portrayed as transparent, or …
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Ideal motives : self-perfection and self-knowledge in the work of Dostoevsky.
… the se spontaneous feelings and to perfect oneself in the im age of the ideally virtuous agent, Christ. To strive to do so is to flo urish. The i<.lea.l of hum an pe,tect ion is present in un reali sed form in hum an natu re, a.11d self-perfection is n natural process . The process is interrup …
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The 'I' in First-Person Thought and What is Meant by Self-Knowledge
… it right about the object. When it comes to self-reference, the perspective I have of ‘I’ is in virtue of my being identical with it, not by perception. This means that there is no need for a criterion of identity since getting it right is already achieved though my unmediated first-person …
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An ethics of coherence: self, knowledge, and religious authority among women Islamic scholars in Leicester, UK
… and continuities in their engagements with knowledge and the ‘ulama, and how these figure in their projects of the self as well as in the construction of their own religious authority. I argue that these women’s work on the self and their modes and discourses of guidance need to be …
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Heuristics, Schemas and Biased Social Judgement: An Explanation of the Reports of the Sources of Self-Knowledge
… investigated subjects' reports of the sources of self-knowlege in light of the growing literature about the shortcomings of social judgment. The hypothesis of this study was the subjects' tendency to report self-observation at the expense of feedback and social comparison as the best source of …
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The Eastern European crisis of self-knowledge (1948-1989) : the relationship between state and society as reflected in Eastern European film : a genre approach
… and their interplay in producing the crisis of self-knowledge that plagued Eastern European societies during Communism. The study is accomplished from an interdisciplinary and comparative point of view. Its interdisciplinary core involves film, communication studies and political …
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"Forms and ceremonies to be gone through" : performance and self-knowledge in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford", "North and South", and "Wives and Daughters".
… the dualistic potential of either initiating self-knowledge or trapping the individual in a self-annihilating existence. Seeking to navigate this duality, Gaskell acknowledges the integral part the community plays in a self's development but ultimately privileges individual integrity in …
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Knowing and Expressing Ourselves
… to receive) a special sort of deference when self-ascribing your current mental states. The second phenomenon is our privileged and peculiar self-knowledge. Roughly, self-knowledge is privileged insofar as one knows ones mental states in a way that is highly epistemically secure relative to …
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How Others Inform and Transform One's Sense of Self
… ignore or reject inaccurate feedback. Thus self-knowledge is a virtue that helps us to act justly toward these sources as well as enables us to acquire other virtues through helping us come to know our strengths and weaknesses. To better conceptualize self-knowledge as a virtue, I look at …
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Descartes' Slight and Metaphysical Doubt
… argue that Descartes arrives at his account of self-knowledge by grappling with skepticism about introspection. As I interpret him, Descartes has his meditator attempt to undermine introspection so that he can replace his former beliefs about his mind's nature and activities with an account of …
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Re-authoring Empathy: Constructing Narratives of Empathic Understanding and Engagement in Higher Education
… of empathy in order to become more conscious and self-aware in our understanding of how we each learned empathy. These experiences, brought forward into the present, create hope and possibility for new self-knowledge. This new self-knowledge supports the embodiment of empathy in a teaching …
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Beliefs in an Opaque Brain
… Interpretive Sensory-Access (ISA) theory of self-knowledge is an interesting account of the opaqueness of our own minds that draws upon a wide range of theories from cognitive science and philosophy. In the present paper, I argue that the theory's assumptions support the conclusion that the …
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