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The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Hardcover)
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The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy of Mind Series
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What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan
Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining
how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves
and the world around us. On this view, unconscious beings cannot
form justified beliefs and so they cannot know anything at all.
Consciousness is the ultimate basis of all knowledge and epistemic
justification. Smithies builds a sustained argument for the
epistemic role of phenomenal consciousness which draws on a range
of considerations in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His
position combines two key claims. The first is phenomenal
mentalism, which says that epistemic justification is determined by
the phenomenally individuated facts about your mental states. The
second is accessibilism, which says that epistemic justification is
luminously accessible in the sense that you're always in a position
to know which beliefs you have epistemic justification to hold.
Smithies integrates these two claims into a unified theory of
epistemic justification, which he calls phenomenal accessibilism.
The book is divided into two parts, which converge on this theory
of epistemic justification from opposite directions. Part 1 argues
from the bottom up by drawing on considerations in the philosophy
of mind about the role of consciousness in mental representation,
perception, cognition, and introspection. Part 2 argues from the
top down by arguing from general principles in epistemology about
the nature of epistemic justification. These mutually reinforcing
arguments form the basis for a unified theory of the epistemic role
of phenomenal consciousness, one that bridges the gap between
epistemology and philosophy of mind.
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