Closereads: Donald Davidson on Self-Knowledge (Part One) @ThePartiallyExaminedLife
Closereads: Donald Davidson on Self-Knowledge (Part One)  @ThePartiallyExaminedLife
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On "First Person Authority" (1984). What warrants our superior knowledge of our own mental states, as oppose to those of others? Why is this not obvious?

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