PEL Presents Closereads: Donald Davidson on Self-Knowledge (Part One)

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Sep 5, 202654:41Religion & Spirituality

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? Read along with us . You can choose to watch this on video.

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