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PEL Presents Closereads: Donald Davidson on Self-Knowledge (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast·Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey·10 September 2026·55 min

About this episode
On "First Person Authority" (1984). What warrants our superior knowledge of our own mental states, as oppose to those of others? Why is this not obvious? Read along with us. You can choose to watch this on video. Subscribe to Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy; follow us there via the free tier to get many other episodes like this one ad free, or pay us to get part 2 and everything else we've recorded. (Alternatively, support both PEL and Closereads at patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife for a nice combo deal.)