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Single Idea 5687
[filed under theme 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 1. Introspection
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Full Idea
Some writers distinguish introspection from a pre-introspective awareness of mental phenomena, saying one is not properly introspecting unless one is not only aware of the phenomena, but aware that one is aware of them.
Gist of Idea
For true introspection, must we be aware that we are aware of our mental events?
Source
Sydney Shoemaker (Introspection [1994], p.395)
Book Ref
'A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Guttenplan,Samuel [Blackwell 1995], p.395
A Reaction
The test question might be what we think animals do. I think I agree with the 'writers'. You are either just aware of the contents or qualia or images of thought, which is not introspection, or you become introspectively aware that you are having them.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[learning about our minds by looking inwards]:
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5676
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To say that I 'know' I am in pain means nothing more than that I AM in pain
[Wittgenstein]
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5690
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A mental state without belief refutes self-intimation; a belief with no state refutes infallibility
[Armstrong, by Shoemaker]
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5687
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For true introspection, must we be aware that we are aware of our mental events?
[Shoemaker]
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5688
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Empirical foundationalism says basic knowledge is self-intimating, and incorrigible or infallible
[Shoemaker]
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5803
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In a representational theory of mind, introspection is displaced perception
[Dretske]
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5805
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Introspection does not involve looking inwards
[Dretske]
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5807
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Introspection is the same as the experience one is introspecting
[Dretske]
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3467
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Neither introspection nor privileged access makes sense
[Searle]
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3483
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Introspection is just thinking about mental states, not a special sort of vision
[Searle]
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3422
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Externalism about content makes introspection depend on external evidence
[Kim]
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9328
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All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them
[Lehrer]
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8831
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Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history
[Goldman]
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2967
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We might even learn some fundamental physics from introspection
[Lockwood]
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5692
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Introspection is not perception, because there are no extra qualities apart from the mental events themselves
[Rosenthal]
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5670
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Knowledge of thoughts covers both their existence and their contents
[Cassam]
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