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Jul 13, 2017 · Since self-consciousness is itself a form of consciousness, consciousness is, of course, a necessary condition of it. But is self-consciousness necessary for consciousness? Positive answers to this question come in both reductive and non-reductive varieties.
- Evans on First Person Thought
Evans on First-Person Thought. The account of first-person...
- Scepticism About Essential Indexicality & Agency
According to the defender of Necessity we might suppose the...
- Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness
In the seventeenth century, “consciousness” began to take on...
- Nonconceptual Mental Content
Christopher Peacocke’s recent work on consciousness and...
- Self-Consciousness: Phenomenological Approaches To
It is important to emphasize, however, that prereflective...
- Evans on First Person Thought
Jul 26, 2004 · In this article, we will focus on Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) work on the mind and consciousness of self and related issues. Some commentators believe that Kant’s views on the mind are dependent on his idealism (he called it transcendental idealism). For the most part, that is not so.
- Andrew Brook, Julian Wuerth
- 2004
Feb 19, 2005 · It is important to emphasize, however, that prereflective self-consciousness is only a necessary and not a sufficient condition for reflective self-ascription and first-person knowledge. Many animals who possess prereflective self-consciousness obviously lack the cognitive resources needed for reflective self-ascriptions (see, e.g., Bekoff 2003).
- Shaun Gallagher, Dan Zahavi
- 2005
Apr 23, 2018 · Is self-consciousness necessary for consciousness? The answer is yes. So there you have it—the answer is yes. This was my response to a question I was asked to address in a recent AEON piece (https://aeon.co/essays/consciousness-is-not-a-thing-but-a-process-of-inference). What follows is based upon the notes for that essay, with a special ...
transcendental ego, the self that is necessary in order for there to be a unified empirical self-consciousness. For Immanuel Kant, it synthesizes sensations according to the categories of the understanding. Nothing can be known of this self, because it is a condition, not an object, of knowledge.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 22, 2021 · Kant is said to be the first to distinguish between consciousness of oneself as the subject of one’s experiences and consciousness of oneself as an object, which he calls transcendental and empirical apperception, respectively.
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Kant’s exploration of the necessary conditions for the possibility of cognition led him not just to self-consciousness, but to the unity of self-consciousness.
