The Epistemic Role of Consciousness

New York, USA: Oxford University Press (2019)
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What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves and the world around us. On this view, unconscious beings cannot form justified beliefs and so they cannot know anything at all. Consciousness is the ultimate basis of all knowledge and epistemic justification.

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Epistemic Akrasia.  (pages 284–311)Declan Smithies

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