Is Perspectival Self-Consciousness Non-Conceptual?

Philosophical Quarterly 52 (207):185-194 (2002)
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Abstract

As perceivers we are able to keep track of the ways in which our perceptual experience depends on what we do. This capacity, which Hurley calls perspectival self- consciousness, is a special instance of our more general ability as perceivers to keep track of how things are. I argue that one upshot of this is that perspectival self- consciousness, like the ability to perceive more generally, relies on our possession of conceptual skills

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