Category Archives: Self-consciousness

The “transparency” of experience

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Nic Koziolek

In the first part of The Mind’s Construction, Matthew Soteriou spends a lot of time talking about a famous passage of G.E. Moore’s “The Refutation of Idealism,” in which Moore says: “The moment we try to fix our attention upon consciousness … Continue reading →

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Self-conscious knowledge and the KK principle

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Nic Koziolek

When I first read Timothy Williamson’s Knowledge and Its Limits, one thing that struck me, and stuck with me, was the fact that, while Williamson rejects the KK principle: KK: If you know that p, then you know that you know that p, … Continue reading →

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Consciousness and Self-Consciousness

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Nic Koziolek

Here’s something that’s been bugging me for a while: when philosophers characterize conscious mental states, they often do so in terms that seem to imply that those states are self-conscious. In other words, they seem to be conflating consciousness and self-consciousness; assuming, … Continue reading →

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Self-Consciousness and the Taking Condition

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Nic Koziolek

It’s possible that, in my earlier posts (here and here), I run two distinct things together: (i) the “takings” posited by the Taking Condition and (ii) the belief (in the best case, the knowledge)––acquired in any self-conscious inference––that you’ve come to know … Continue reading →

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Kant on Self-Consciousness

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Nic Koziolek

At one point in “Some Remarks on Kant’s Theory of Experience,” Sellars is summarizing some “familiar Kantian theses” (279), and says: “Even our consciousness of what is going on in our own mind is a conceptual response which must be distinguished from … Continue reading →

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