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				<p> This article will put forward the thesis that self-knowledge should not be seen as a higher level of self-consciousness but rather as separate and independent from the act of self-consciousness. Only in such an account may self-knowledge avoid the problem of errors in self-identification emerging from all sorts of bodily illusions such as BSI, RHI, and FBI, as well as mental ones, based on a misidentification of propositional attitudes. In the light of the considered conception arguments against resting self-knowledge on self-consciousness will be discussed, leading to the depiction of self-knowledge as compatible with externalism and appealing to the distinction between self-others, although this will not be a distinction referring to bodily self-consciousness but rather ascribing beliefs to others.</p>
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This article will put forward the thesis that self-knowledge should not be seen as a higher level of self-consciousness but rather as separate and independent from the act of self-consciousness. Only in such an account may self-knowledge avoid the problem of errors in self-identification emerging from all sorts of bodily illusions such as BSI, RHI, and FBI, as well as mental ones, based on a misidentification of propositional attitudes. In the light of the considered conception arguments against resting self-knowledge on self-consciousness will be discussed, leading to the depiction of self-knowledge as compatible with externalism and appealing to the distinction between self-others, although this will not be a distinction referring to bodily self-consciousness but rather ascribing beliefs to others.

The Problem of Self-Knowledge Built on Self-Consciousness in the Light of Externalism

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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This article will put forward the thesis that self-knowledge should not be seen as a higher level of self-consciousness but rather as separate and independent...

The Problem of Self-Knowledge Built on Self-Consciousness in the Light of Externalism

Published Online: Mar 16, 2017

Page range: 267 - 283

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0067

Keywords
self-knowledge, self-consciousness, self-illusions, externalism, e-theories, first-person authority

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Problem of Self-Knowledge Built on Self-Consciousness in the Light of Externalism

Published Online: Mar 16, 2017

Page range: 267 - 283

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0067

Keywordsself-knowledge, self-consciousness, self-illusions, externalism, e-theories, first-person authority

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
self-knowledge, self-consciousness, self-illusions, externalism, e-theories, first-person authority