RESUMEN

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze some different explanatory models of self - knowledge, belonging to Contemporary analytic philosophy. As a starting point, I will focus on self-ascriptions of mental states of the likes of "I have a headache", "I am thinking about my son", "I desire to shock my father", namely, the so-called "avowals". In the first part, I will point out what I take to be the set of characteristics of avowals that any theory about self-knowledge should account for. In the second part, I will present and contrast with one another the main theoretical explanatory models that have been put forward to give the required account.

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Teoría Psicológica , Autoimagen , Humanos

RESUMEN

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze some different explanatory models of self - knowledge, belonging to Contemporary analytic philosophy. As a starting point, I will focus on self-ascriptions of mental states of the likes of [quot ]I have a headache[quot ], [quot ]I am thinking about my son[quot ], [quot ]I desire to shock my father[quot ], namely, the so-called [quot ]avowals[quot ]. In the first part, I will point out what I take to be the set of characteristics of avowals that any theory about self-knowledge should account for. In the second part, I will present and contrast with one another the main theoretical explanatory models that have been put forward to give the required account.

RESUMEN

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze some different explanatory models of self - knowledge, belonging to Contemporary analytic philosophy. As a starting point, I will focus on self-ascriptions of mental states of the likes of [quot ]I have a headache[quot ], [quot ]I am thinking about my son[quot ], [quot ]I desire to shock my father[quot ], namely, the so-called [quot ]avowals[quot ]. In the first part, I will point out what I take to be the set of characteristics of avowals that any theory about self-knowledge should account for. In the second part, I will present and contrast with one another the main theoretical explanatory models that have been put forward to give the required account.