Transparency and Reflection: A Study of Self-Knowledge and the Nature of Mind - Hardcoverby Matthew Boyle (Author) The topic of self knowledge has been central to philosophy since antiquity but if self knowledge deserves to be not just a goal that each of us should privately pursue, but a topic that philosophers should investigate in general terms, on what basis does it claim our attention? Much contemporary work in philosophy and cognitive science treats human cognition and perception as processes of representation manipulation,