Consciousness and Inner Awareness

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvDavide Bordini,Arnaud Dewalque,Anna Giustina

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While reading these lines, you are aware of the words on the page. But are you also aware of seeing them-of your visual experience itself? Some say yes, others no. This is one of the central divides in contemporary philosophy of consciousness. Simply put, the general question is whether consciousness requires some form of self-consciousness. Those who reply affirmatively endorse the Awareness Principle: each conscious mental state is such that its subject is aware of it. The relevant awareness is what we call inner awareness. This volume of new essays examines whether the Awareness Principle is true, what inner awareness is, and its import for our understanding of the conscious mind. Bringing together established and emerging philosophers, it advances the philosophical understanding of inner awareness as a phenomenon in its own right. Scholarly yet accessible, it will interest researchers and students of philosophy of mind and consciousness studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-31
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009383769

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Davide Bordini is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Genoa. He works mainly in philosophy of mind, focusing on questions concerning the nature and the structure of consciousness and intentionality. Arnaud Dewalque is a Full Professor at the University of Liège. He works mainly on the history of philosophy of mind, with a focus on early phenomenology and early analytic philosophy. Anna Giustina is an Assistant Professor (Ramon y Cajal fellow) at the University of Valencia. She works mainly in philosophy of mind and epistemology, especially on consciousness, introspection, and acquaintance.

Introduction Davide Bordini, Arnaud Dewalque and Anna Giustina; Part I. The Existence and Extent of Inner Awareness: 1. Inner awareness: past and present Davide Bordini, Arnaud Dewalque and Anna Giustina; 2. Three arguments for inner awareness Matt Duncan; 3. The ability strategy: seeking a middle-ground in the inner awareness debate Tom Mcclelland; Part II. The Nature of Inner Awareness: 4. What is inner awareness? Uriah Kriegel; 5. Inner acquaintance Terry Horgan, Mark Timmons; 6. The lamp that illuminates itself: consciousness and inner awareness Nico Silins; 7. The minimal self – the solo self Galen Strawson; Part III. Inner Awareness and Other Mental Phenomena: 8. Introspecting the world Laura Gow; 9. Escaping the introspective trap Amy Kind; 10. Moods as ways of inner awareness Anna Giustina; 11. Rationality and acquaintance in theories of introspection Daniel Stoljar; References; Index.