In SelfKnowledge and Resentment Akeel Bilgrami argues that selfknowledgeof our intentional states is special among all the knowledges we have becauseit is not a... » 

In SelfKnowledge and Resentment Akeel Bilgrami argues that selfknowledgeof our intentional states is special among all the knowledges we have becauseit is not an epistemological notion in the standard sense of that term butinstead is a fallout of the radically normative nature of thought and agency.Four themes or questions are brought together into an integrated philosophicalposition What makes selfknowledge different from other forms of knowledge?What makes for freedom and agency in a deterministic universe? What makesintentional states of a subject irreducible to its physical and functionalstates? And what makes values irreducible to the states of nature as thenatural sciences study them? This integration of themes into a single andsystematic picture of thought value agency and selfknowledge is essentialto the books aspiration and argument. Once this integrated position is fullyin place the book closes with a postscript on how one might fruitfully viewthe kind of selfknowledge that is pursued in psychoanalysis. «