Philosophy Talk. The Limits of Self-Knowledge

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Abstract: Descartes considered the mind to be fully self-transparent; that is, he thought that we need only introspect to know what goes on inside our own minds. More recently, social psychology has shown that a great deal of high-level cognition takes place at an unconscious level, inaccessible to introspection. How then do we gain insight into ourselves? How reliable are the narratives that we construct about ourselves and our internal lives? Are there other reliable routes to self-knowledge, or are we condemned to being forever deluded about who we truly are? John and Ken look inward with Timothy Wilson from the University of Virginia, author of Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Form	podcasts
Extent	1 audio file
Place	KALW (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)California
Date created	October 6, 2013
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Track configuration	Stereo

philosophytalk.org show page	Title The Limits of Self-Knowledge
Finding Aid	Title Philosophy Talk (SC1118)
Show#	328.0
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bm070mx9781
Location	SC1118
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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