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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 16 facts
referenceMatthew Boyle published 'Two Kinds of Self-Knowledge' in the journal Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 2009, volume 78, issue 1, pages 133–164.
claimSydney Shoemaker (1984b) argues that postulating an introspective awareness of the self as the self fails to explain all self-knowledge because if inner perception revealed an object to be F, one could only judge that they are F if they already took themselves to be that perceived object, which presupposes prior non-perceptual self-knowledge.
referenceBrie Gertler authored the book 'Self-Knowledge', published by Routledge in 2011.
claimPeter Carruthers proposed an integrative theory of self-knowledge in his 2011 book 'The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge'.
claimLucy O'Brien analyzed Richard Moran's views on agency and self-knowledge in her 2003 article 'Moran on Agency and Self-Knowledge' published in the European Journal of Philosophy.
referenceAkeel Bilgrami published 'Self-Knowledge and Resentment' in 2006 through Harvard University Press in Cambridge, MA.
claimRichard Moran explored the relationship between authority and estrangement in his 2001 book 'Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge'.
referenceBaron Reed authored the paper 'Self-Knowledge and Rationality', published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 2010.
claimChristopher Peacocke discussed self-knowledge and conceptual redeployment in his 1996 article 'Entitlement, Self-Knowledge, and Conceptual Redeployment'.
claimPeter Carruthers defended the 'Theory Theory' of self-knowledge in his 1996 paper 'Simulation and Self-Knowledge: A Defence of Theory Theory'.
referenceCrispin Wright authored the article 'Self-Knowledge: The Wittgensteinian Legacy', published in 1998 in the book 'Knowing Our Own Minds', pages 13–45.
claimSydney Shoemaker (1986) asserts that if there is an awareness of the self, it is philosophically significant because it could ground self-knowledge, first-person reference, and the immunity to error of certain first-person thoughts.
claimSeveral philosophers, including Shoemaker (1988, 1994), Burge (1996), Moran (2001), Bilgrami (2006), and Boyle (2009, 2011), have argued that rationality requires self-knowledge, which implies self-consciousness.
claimThe Delphic maxim 'Know Thyself' is a familiar feature of ancient Greek philosophy and culture, representing an early historical interest in the concept of self-knowledge.
referencePeter Carruthers, Logan Fletcher, and J. Brendan Ritchie discussed the evolution of self-knowledge in their 2012 paper 'The Evolution of Self-Knowledge'.
referenceJordi Fernández authored the book 'Transparent Minds: A Study of Self-Knowledge', published by Oxford University Press in 2013.
(PDF) Levels of consciousness and self-awareness - Academia.edu academia.edu 3 facts
referencePaul J. Silvia and Ewald G.H.E. Gendolla examined the relationship between self-focused attention and accurate self-knowledge in their 2001 review published in the Review of General Psychology.
claimHabitual self-observers exhibit quicker self-descriptive responses and possess more nuanced self-knowledge compared to infrequent self-observers.
claimIndividuals focusing on private self-aspects exhibit more sophisticated self-knowledge compared to those attending to their public traits.
Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 2 facts
quoteGopnik and Meltzoff (1994, p. 168) stated: “Even though we seem to perceive our own mental states directly, this direct perception is an illusion. In fact, our knowledge of ourselves, like our knowledge of others, is the result of a theory, and depends as much on our experience of others as on our experience of ourselves.”
claimSelf-consciousness includes a dimension of mind reading, which is frequently described as self-knowledge or self-understanding.
(PDF) Language and Consciousness; How Language Implies Self ... academia.edu 1 fact
referenceThe paper 'Language and Consciousness; How Language Implies Self-awareness' investigates the claim that human self-concept, identity, and self-knowledge are emergent products of symbolic systems, particularly language, rather than intrinsic features of consciousness.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
accountCharles Darwin conducted a case study of his son William's behavior, which included observations on infant-adult communication, meta-communication, emotional expressions, early reasoning, infant jealousy, and the origins of self-knowledge.