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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
An active self-name is a name, in the language of thought,...
- Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness
[A person] is a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason...
- Nonconceptual Mental Content
Christopher Peacocke’s recent work on consciousness and...
- Self-Consciousness: Phenomenological Approaches To
As Peter Carruthers puts it, the subjective feel of...
- Evans on First Person Thought
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
AA number of philosophers have claimed that self-consciousness is a necessary condition of being a person. For example, John Locke de- fined a person as "a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; . .
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.
Apr 23, 2018 · The theory possesses the following properties: (1) It is anti-reductionist and anti-eliminativist, and yet, human consciousness is considered as a purely natural (biological) phenomenon. (2) It avoids epiphenomenalism and indicates in which conditions human consciousness has evolutionary advantages, and in which it may even be disadvantageous.
- Boris Kotchoubey
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00567
- 2018
- Front Psychol. 2018; 9: 567.
Oct 1, 2021 · The Consciousness Criterion is the claim that moral status requires consciousness, or that being conscious is a necessary condition for being a person. The idea that consciousness imbues an entity with special value, or moral status, is widely accepted in Western cultures.
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Mar 8, 2022 · This means that the neuro-ecological level cannot be described by prereflective self-consciousness itself, as that would confuse the necessary conditions or predisposition of its possible realization with the sufficient conditions of the self’s actual realization.
