Self-Knowledge for Humans
Quassim Cassam
Reviews and Awards
"I highly recommend Cassam's book. It provides a deep, yet admirably accessible study of self-knowledge and surrounding issues, and is full of helpful and often surprising insights." -- Michael Roche, Mississippi State University, The Philosophical Quarterly
"Valuable for those interested in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophical psychology... Highly recommended." --Choice
"...[I]s a truly fine book. It is clearly and elegantly written, and metes out criticism fairly while developing a number of lines of powerful argument. It demonstrates where most philosophical discussions of self-knowledge have gone astray, puts forward a plausible positive theory of insubstantial self-knowledge, and makes an important start on the project of examining the nature and importance of substantial self-knowledge. It deserves to be widely read." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
"A particular virtue of the book is its unwavering insistence that philosophical views about self-knowledge must be judged by their fidelity to what self-knowledge actually is, namely, an untidy phenomenon in the lives of cognitively limited creatures...Cassam's realist outlook is sensible and refreshing, and his effort to bring philosophical attention to neglected issues about self-knowledge is commendable." -- Mind