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Cynthia Macdonald

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Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and Authoritative Self-Knowledge

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback) October 1, 2008 Cynthia Macdonald 1 citation

Many recent discussions of self-consciousness and self-knowledge assume that there are only two kinds of accounts available to be taken on the relation between the so-called first-order (conscious) states and subjects' awareness or knowledge of them: a same-order, or reflexive view, on the one hand, or a higher-order one, on the other. I maintain that there is a third kind of view that is...