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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.
Feb 19, 2005 · As Peter Carruthers puts it, the subjective feel of experience presupposes a capacity for higher-order awareness: “such self-awareness is a conceptually necessary condition for an organism to be a subject of phenomenal feelings, or for there to be anything that its experiences are like” (1996, 152).
- Shaun Gallagher, Dan Zahavi
- 2005
It also looks at several episodes in the lively debate about the priority of self-consciousness versus object cognition that seems to stand behind Kant’s unusual claim that self-consciousness and object cognition are necessary and sufficient conditions for each other.
The self is not the object of consciousness, nor is it part of the content of consciousness. Indeed, according to Searle, we have no experience of the self at all, but since all (non-pathological) consciousness has to be possessed by a self, we can infer that it must exist (Searle 2005: 16–18).
Jul 24, 2024 · Self-consciousness has proved more tractable to empirical investigation than sensory states and perceptual consciousness, and cognitive scientists have explored many new dimensions of self-consciousness in humans and other animals.
Jul 26, 2004 · If consciousness of self ascribes nothing to the self, it can be a “bare … consciousness of self [as one is]” and yet yield no knowledge of self—it is “very far from being a knowledge of the self” (B158).
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This book explores the consequences of Kant's view of the self and his contributions to our own understanding of the character (and limits) of self-knowledge. Salient aspects of Kant's positive theory of the self as it is presented in the Transcendental Deduction are discussed.
