SELF-KNOWLEDGE, OMNISCIENT NARRATOR, ORDINARY LIFE

Authors

  • Waldomiro José da Silva Filho UFBA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v11i2.4723

Keywords:

autoconhecimento, externalismo, narrador onisciente

Abstract

This text investigates some difficulties that Semantic Externalism presents for the idea of “self-knowledge” and “first person authority”. I would like to defend that those difficulties originate mainly from the fact that externalist arguments often fall back on mental experiments construed in the perspective of an omniscient narrator. I believe that “self-knowledge” and “first person authority” should be thought of not from the viewpoint of epistemology, but our normal practical capacities to evaluate, ponder, criticize, judge our thoughts, attitudes and actions, especially when we want to give proof, plan something,  talk with other people, justify, explain, in short, when we want to offer reasons.

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Author Biography

Waldomiro José da Silva Filho, UFBA

Pesquisador do CNPq (Produtividade em Pesquisa). Graduado em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (1989), com e Pós-doutorado em Filosofia pela Purdue University, Estados Unidos (2003). Atualmente é professor adjunto da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Sua atividade de pesquisa e ensino se concentra na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Epistemologia, Ceticismo, Filosofia da Mente e Pragmatismo. Publicou e organizou, entre outros, os seguintes livros: Razones e Interpretaciones (com Carlos Caorsi, Ediciones Del Signo, Argentina, 2008), Ensaios sobre Ceticismo (com Plínio Smith, Alameda, 2006), Significado, Verdade, Interpretação: Davidson e a Filosofia (com Plínio Smith, Loyola, 2005), O Ceticismo e a Possibilidade da Filosofia (Unijuí, 2005), Razão Mínima (com Luiz Paulo Rouanet, Unimarco, 2004), Da Interpretação: Ensaios sobre Davidson (2004), Epistemologia e Ensino de Ciências (Arcadia, 2002), Ensaios sobre a Verdade (com textos de Donald Davidson, Unimarco, 2002).

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Published

2008-09-06

How to Cite

DA SILVA FILHO, Waldomiro José. SELF-KNOWLEDGE, OMNISCIENT NARRATOR, ORDINARY LIFE. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 2, p. 287–303, 2008. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v11i2.4723. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/4723. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2006)

Section

Artigos Originais

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