PHLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: William Alston, Headache, Afterimage
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Week 10 lecture #9: tuesday november 08, 2016. The plan: alston: varieties of self-knowledge, gertler: self-knowledge. William alston: 1921-2009, worked on epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion. Knowing your own mind: i know what"s going on inside my mind, i might be able to know what"s going on inside your mind. I know what i"m thinking, i can take a guess about what you"re thinking through what you say and how you"re acting. But when it comes to my own mind, i know everything: privileged access. But it will be said that these phenomena are false and that i am dreaming. Let it be so; still it is at least quite certain that it seems to me that i see light, that i hear noise, and that i feel heat. A person cannot conceive of himself capable of greater certainty than to know that any idea in their mind is such as they perceive it to be. john locke.
