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

Author:

Pacholik-Żuromska Anita1

Affiliation:

1. Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

Abstract

Abstract 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.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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