The Epistemic Role of Consciousness Declan Smithies

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199917663
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199917662
• Author(s): Declan Smithies

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.

Table contents:

PART I
1. Representation
2. Perception
3. Cognition
4. Introspection
5. Mentalism
PART II
6. Accessibilism
7. Reflection
8. Epistemic Akrasia
9. Higher-Order Evidence
10. Luminosity
11. Conclusion

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