Consciousness; Justification; Franz Brentano (1838-1917); Inner Perception; Descriptive Psychology
Abstract :
[en] When you are in a joyful mood, how do you know that it is so? On a Cartesian picture, the answer is that you’ve got some immediate, noninferential apprehension of your being joyful, such as
(i) this noninferential apprehension is analogous to sense perception (perceptual account), and (ii)
unlike sense perception, it makes it unquestionable or evident to you that you presently are in a joyful mood (epistemic privilege). In this paper, I defend this view against some classical objections, arguing that pre-reflective self-consciousness actually is analogous to sense perception.
Research Center/Unit :
Phénoménologies - ULiège
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
Dewalque, Arnaud ; Université de Liège > Département de philosophie > Phénoménologies
Language :
English
Title :
Cartesian Self-Consciousness Revisited
Publication date :
12 May 2016
Event name :
Consciousness as a Source of Knowledge
Event organizer :
Arnaud Dewalque (ULg) et Frank Hofmann (Université du Luxembourg)
Event place :
Luxembourg
Event date :
11-12 mai 2016
Audience :
International
Name of the research project :
Phenomenology of thinking past and present (Crédit classique, PhéCog).
