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Self-Knowledge and the 'Inner Eye' 

Author: Cynthia Macdonald (Show Biography)
DOI: 10.1080/10001998058538691
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Published in: journal Philosophical Explorations, Volume 1, Issue 2 May 1998 , pages 83 - 106
Subject: Philosophy of Mind;
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Abstract

What is knowledge of one's own current, consciously entertained intentional states a form of inner awareness? If so, what form? In this paper I explore the prospects for a quasi-observational account of a certain class of cases where subjects appear to have self-knowledge, namely, the so-called cogito-like cases. In section one I provide a rationale for the claim that we need an epistemology of self-knowledge, and specifically, an epistemology of the cogito-like cases. In section two I argue that contentful properties in such cases have two features in common with observational properties of objects. In section three, I develop a quasi-observational account of self-knowledge for the cogito-like cases by considering various accounts of the nature of observational properties (specifically, secondary qualities) and by applying them to these cases. I conclude by addressing some important objections to the account.
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