Projection, Desire, and Transparency

Publication Title

New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge

Document Type

Book Chapter - Open Access

Department or Program

Philosophy

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

While the broad outlines of transparent introspection of belief are widely agreed upon, it is more difficult to see how to build a transparent account of desire introspection. Accounts based on judgments about the external world fall short of accounting for our actual experiences of desire introspection, as these judgments can be made without seeming, from a first-person perspective, to correlate with having the relevant desire. Instead, transparency theorists should look to projective experiences of desire, where desires reveal themselves to us in our experience of the world. Such an account requires substantive claims about the architecture of the mind, but these have wider explanatory usefulness than those made in simple causal accounts of introspection.

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Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032710334-11

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