Self-Reference, Self-Representation, and the Logic of Intentionality.

Representationalist accounts of mental content face the threat of the homunculus fallacy. In collapsing the distinction between the conscious state and the conscious subject, self-representational accounts of consciousness possess the means to deal with this objection. We analyze a particular sort o...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 88; no. 6; pp. 2561 - 2591
Main Author: Szangolies, Jochen
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Published: Springer Nature Aug2023
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