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The Centered Mind By Peter Carruthers Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 304, £30 ISBN 978-0-19873882-4

knowing. (47) The relative inattention Cassam pays to the ‘nature, scope, and value’ of substantial self-knowledge (viii), along with the exhaustive attempts to refute Rationalism, result in a work that is not likely to assuage the disappointment that (Cassam notes) laypeople are likely to undergo when they confront philosophical work on self-knowledge. I would have preferred Cassam devote less effort to grinding old axes and more effort to developing new tools. These criticisms notwithstanding, Cassam admirably captures the present state of philosophical thinking about self-knowledge and does so in an accessible and engaging way. Self-knowledge for Humans does not fully embody the ‘humanistic’ revolution in the philosophy of self-knowledge that Cassam seeks, but it should inspire reform in that direction.