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How we know our conscious minds: Introspective access to conscious thoughts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Keith Frankish
Keith Frankish
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Department of Philosophy, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. k.frankish@open.ac.ukhttp://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/philos/frankish.htm
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Abstract

Carruthers considers and rejects a mixed position according to which we have interpretative access to unconscious thoughts, but introspective access to conscious ones. I argue that this is too hasty. Given a two-level view of the mind, we can, and should, accept the mixed position, and we can do so without positing additional introspective mechanisms beyond those Carruthers already recognizes.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 145 - 146
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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