2. Knowing One's Own Mind

Author: Davidson, Donald

Source: Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, September 2001 , pp. 15-39(25)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs

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Abstract:

Is an attempt to resolve the following apparent difficulty: given that the contents of our minds are in part determined by external factors of which we are ignorant, how is it possible for us to know these contents without the need to appeal to evidence? Davidson resolves this difficulty by, among other things, giving up the idea of ‘objects before the mind’, for the attributes of such objects cannot be hidden from the agent.

Keywords: content; mind; knowing one's own mind; objects before the mind; external factors; evidence

Document Type: Research article

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