Abstract
Knowing that one wants to go to the movies is an example of self-knowledge, knowledge of one's mental states. The term is due to Gilbert Ryle; on the Cartesian view that he is concerned to attack, mind has a two-fold privileged access to its own doings. The distinction between privileged and peculiar access is one thing; the claim that we actually have one or both sorts of access is another. This chapter briefly reviews some evidence. One leading theory of self-knowledge classifies it as a variety of perceptual knowledge, in many respects like our perceptual knowledge of our environment. Belief, if true, offers a satisfying explanation of both privileged and peculiar access. Privileged access is explained because BEL is strongly self-verifying. According to the circularity objection, in order to follow DES, one has to have some knowledge of one's desires beforehand.
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