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Knowing One’s Own Mind

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This article is published in The American Philosophical Association Centennial Series.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 682 citations till now.

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Externalism and Authoritative Self-Knowledge

TL;DR: In a series of papers, Tyler Burge (1985a, 1985b, 1988, 1996) has argued that the distinctive entitlement or right that subjects have to selfknowledge in certain cases is compatible with externalism, since that entitlement is environmentally neutral, neutral with respect to the issue of the individuation dependence of subjects' intentional states on factors beyond their bodies as discussed by the authors.
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Knowing levels and the child's understanding of mind

TL;DR: Gopnik et al. as discussed by the authors showed that children are able to understand their own and other people's false beliefs, deceive other people with the express goal of getting them to accept false beliefs and differentiating the way an object looks from the way it actually is.
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First-person current

TL;DR: This article paraphrase a well-known exchange between Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald: "It is not that we will not change our minds under any circumstances; we just want to be fully convinced that Granny was not right about direct access in the first place (for some things some of the time").
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The Circumstances of Self-Knowledge

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether contemporary philosophical theories of self-knowledge have the materials to handle such questions in a satisfactory manner, in a way that respects their subtleties and intricacies.
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Reincarnating the Identity Theory.

TL;DR: It is argued that the classical multiple realization argument against identity theory is built on not recognizing that the main claim of the identity theory concerns the relation between experience and descriptions of experience, instead of being about relations between different description of experience.