Aging people often have to face health issues and challenging, negative emotions, such as the fear of death. In this paper, I will not be concerned with death or health, though. I will also set aside any concern about practical issues linked to aging, such as where to find appropriate care or retirement plans. In contrast, here I plan to focus on the fact that old age potentially brings a different type of challenge: a changing and diminishing self-knowledge. This change is not constitutive of aging and is not a necessary feature of aging. In contrast, this paper puts forward the hypothesis that, given what aging often entails, loss of self-knowledge could be an outcome of aging. To be sure, mine is not a full empirical investigation on aging: what I offer is a claim that connects features of aging with various theories of self-knowledge. As a result, my view is compatible with the possibility that aging is not accompanied by a changing and diminishing…
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