This chapter discusses how the intelligible features of conscious states can be discovered by reflecting on the familiar intrinsic properties of conscious states made known to man through introspection. An experience is the event of a subject instantiating a certain kind of mental property, and a subject can introspect this property when he has the experience. The introspectible properties that...
A belief must have justification if it is to count as knowledge. And it is a commonplace thought that in certain circumstances experiences can serve as justifications for beliefs. Moreover, many have thought that there is something distinctive about the wayin which experiences justify beliefs, and that there is something distinctive about experiences which accounts for the distinctive way in...