Self-ascriptions of Belief and Transparency

Among recent theories of the nature of self-knowledge, the rationalistic view, according to which self-knowledge is not a
cognitive achievement—perceptual or inferential—has been prominent. Upon this kind of view, however, self-knowledge becomes
a bit of a mystery. Although the rationalistic conception is defended in this article, it is argued that it has to be supplemented
by an account of the transparency of belief: the question whether to believe that P is settled when one asks oneself whether
P.