17 July
3:30-5:30pm

Sir Roland Wilson Building, Room 2.02

Kranti Saran (Ashoka)

The Moral Significance of Introspection

While the significance of introspection to the philosophy of mind and epistemology is widely recognised, its significance to our moral lives has gone unrecognised. I argue for three theses: first, that introspection is the process of involuting attention towards one's sensations, emotions, and experiences more generally; second, that introspection has to power to diminish, displace, and even extinguish its (non-perceptual) object; third, its powers can be a significant means of mental self-regulation in dealing with afflictive states such as anger. Introspection is less a microscope in the service of veridicality than a mallet in the service of virtue.

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