RADICAL ENACTIVISM AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Kriterion: Revista de Filosofia September 1, 2018 Giovanni Rolla 4 citations
A middle-ground account of self-knowledge is proposed, reconciling perceptual models (where mental states are accessed via causal mechanisms) with rationalist models (where self-knowledge is constituted by rational agency). By analogy with how sensorimotor abilities support perceptual knowledge, self-knowledge is characterized as an exercise of action-oriented and action-orienting abilities. This view preserves the privileged access typically associated with self-knowledge while avoiding an unbridgeable gap between knowledge of oneself and knowledge of other minds.