Transparency and reflection. Issue 7 (3rd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boyle, Matthew
• Is Part Of: Canadian journal of philosophy. Volume 49:Issue 7(2019)
• Page Start: 1012
• Page End: 1039
• Publication Date: 2019-10-03
• Subjects: Transparency -- self-knowledge -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- reflection -- privileged access -- belief -- intention; Philosophy -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2019.1565621
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0045-5091

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Much recent work on self-knowledge has been inspired by the idea that the 'transparency' of questions about our own mental states to questions about the non-mental world holds the key to understanding how privileged self-knowledge is possible. I critically discuss some prominent recent accounts of such transparency, and argue for a Sartrean interpretation of the phenomenon, on which this knowledge is explained by our capacity to transform an implicit or 'non-positional' self-awareness into reflective, 'positional' self-knowledge.