@article {Lawlor:July 2005:0039-7857:467,
	author = "Lawlor, Krista",
	title = "Reason and the Past: The Role of Rationality in Diachronic Self-Knowledge",
	journal = "Synthese",
	volume = "145",
	year = "July 2005",
	abstract = "Knowing one’s past thoughts and attitudes is a vital sort of self-knowledge. In the absence of memorial impressions to serve as evidence, we face a pressing question of how such self-knowledge is possible. Recently, philosophers of mind have argued that self-knowledge of past attitudes supervenes on rationality. I examine two kinds of argument for this supervenience claim, one from cognitive dynamics, and one from practical rationality, and reject both. I present an alternative account, on which knowledge of past attitudes is inferential knowledge, and depends upon contingent facts of one’s rationality and consistency. Failures of self-knowledge are better explained by the inferential account.",
	pages = "467-495(29)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/synt/2005/00000145/00000003/00006220"
	doi = "doi:10.1007/s11229-005-6220-3"
}