What Kind of Awareness is Awareness of Awareness?
Grazer Philosophische Studien August 8, 2017 Michelle Montague 43 citations
In this paper the author discusses and defends a theory of consciousness inspired by Franz Brentano, according to which every conscious experience involves a certain kind of immediate awareness of itself. All conscious experience is in a certain fundamental sense ‘self-intimating’—it constitutively involves awareness of that very awareness. The author calls this ‘the awareness of awareness...