Self-consciousness is an issue that is of fundamental theoretical significance in philosophy. It is at the root of many other philosophical issues ranging from epistemological questions (i.e., the problem of self-knowledge) to those that are metaphysical (i.e., the concept of a person or a "self") or moral (i.e., issues of moral agency or autonomy). In the philosophy of mind the problem of self...

Human self-consciousness operates at different levels of complexity and at least comprises five different levels of representational processes. These five levels are nonconceptual representation, conceptual representation, sentential representation, meta-representation, and iterative meta-representation. These different levels of representation can be operationalized by taking a first-person-pe...

Consciousness, Color, and Content is a significant contribution to our understanding of consciousness, among other things. I have learned a lot from it, as well as Tye's other writings. What's more, I actually agree with much of it – fortunately for this symposium, not all of it. The book continues the defense of the " PANIC " theory of phenomenal consciousness that Tye began in Ten Problems of...

Sartre's concept of ‘non-thetic awareness’ must be understood as equivalent to the concept of ‘nonconceptual content’ currently discussed in anglophone epistemology and philosophy of mind, since it could not otherwise play the role in the structure of ‘bad faith’, or self-deception, that Sartre ascribes to it. This understanding of the term makes sense of some otherwise puzzling features of Sar...

Perceptual experience seems to involve distinct intentional and qualitative features. Inasmuch as one can visually perceive that there is a Coke can in front of one, perceptual experience must be intentional. But such experiences seem to differ from paradigmatic intentional states in having introspectible qualitative character. Peacocke (1983) argues that a perceptual experience s qualitative c...

The most basic foundations of the self arguably lie in those brain systems that represent the body (Blanke and Metzinger 2009;Damasio 2000; Gallagher 2005; Jeannerod 2006; Knoblich 2002; Metzinger et al. 2007). The representation of the body is complex, involving the encoding and integration of a wide range of multisensory (somatosensory, visual, auditory, vestibular, visceral) and motor signal...

Abstract It has often been claimed, e.g. by William James or Aldous Huxley, that mystical experiences across times and cultures exhibit a striking similarity. Even though the words images we use to describe them are different, underneath surface find common experiential core. Others have rejected this claim argued all intrinsically shaped mystics’ pre-existing religious concepts. Against these ...