Forthcoming
Critical Notes

The Nature of the Knowledge of our Mental World: On Una trilogía que importa: Autoconocimiento, deliberación y engaño, by Nora Stigol, Alicia Gianella, and Diego Lawler

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  • Gustavo Fernandez Acevedo
Gustavo Fernandez Acevedo
Facultades de Humanidades y Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36446/af.e1280

Published 2025-09-11

Keywords

  • Autoconocimiento,
  • Autoengaño,
  • Explicación,
  • Racionalidad,
  • Voluntarismo doxástico
  • Self-knowledge,
  • Self-deception,
  • Explanation,
  • Rationality,
  • Doxastic Voluntarism
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Abstract

The book under review presents a comprehensive set of problems and theoretical perspectives on self-knowledge and related issues, particularly self-deception. We will examine three closely interconnected questions here: the relationship between self-knowledge and self-deception, the role of rationality in self-knowledge, the extent to which beliefs about ourselves are susceptible to volitional influences, and, finally, the possibility that different explanatory models may coexist.

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