The epistemic role of consciousness /

In this volume, Declan Smithies argues that consciousness has unique epistemic significance in the sense that only conscious creatures have epistemic justification to know anything about the world. In other words, all epistemic justification depends ultimately on consciousness.

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Philosophy of Mind --
Consciousness
What Is Consciousness?
The Significance of Consciousness
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Putting Consciousness First
An Overview of This Book
Representation
Representationalism
Unconscious Mental Representation
Grounding Representation in Consciousness
Grounding Thought in Consciousness
Grounding Epistemic Justification in Consciousness
Perception
Blindsight
Concepts of Consciousness
Presentational Force
Skeptical Scenarios
Duplication Scenarios
Cognition
The Epistemic Role of Belief
Beliefs and Subdoxastic States
Inferential Integration
Conscious Accessibility
Cognitive Experience
Introspection
The Simple Theory of Introspection
The Reliability Challenge
Rationality and Self-Knowledge
The Scope Question
The Role of Conscious Judgment
Mentalism
Evidentialism
Phenomenal Mentalism
The Phenomenal Conception of Evidence
The Explanatory Challenge
Epistemology --
Accessibilism
What Is Accessibilism?
Explaining Accessibilism
Clairvoyance and Super-Blindsight
The New Evil Demon Problem
Answering the Explanatory Challenge
Justification and Reflection
An Argument from Reflection
The Overintellectualization Problem
The Regress Problem
The Empirical Problem
The Value Problem
Epistemic Akrasia
What Is Epistemic Akrasia?
An Argument from Epistemic Akrasia
Moore's Paradox
Knowledge as the Aim of Belief
Higher-Order Evidence
A Puzzle about Epistemic Akrasia
Solving the Puzzle
The Certainty Argument
Ideally Rational Agents
Rational Dilemmas
Epistemic Idealization
Luminosity
Luminosity Defined
The Problem of the Speckled Hen
The Anti-Luminosity Argument
Epistemic Iteration Principles
The Puzzle of the Unmarked Clock
What's at Stake?
Seemings
Phenomenal Conservatism
What Are Seemings?
Problems about Evidence
Problems about Evidential Support
Phenomenal Accessibilism
1. Verfasser:
Smithies, Declan
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Zusammenfassung:
In this volume, Declan Smithies argues that consciousness has unique epistemic significance in the sense that only conscious creatures have epistemic justification to know anything about the world. In other words, all epistemic justification depends ultimately on consciousness.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 442 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Also issued in print: 2019.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-934558-9
0-19-991767-1
0-19-094853-1
Schlagworte:
Consciousness.
Akrasia.
Philosophy of mind.
Epistemics.
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