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  • Chapter 6 - I think I think, therefore I am – I think

  • Edited by JeeLoo Liu, California State University, Fullerton, John Perry, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Consciousness and the Self
    Published online:
    05 December 2011
    Print publication:
    17 November 2011, pp 150-164

  • Summary

    In this chapter, the author expresses his interest in the epistemological status of Descartes' premise, that is, in how we know, or what reason we have for thinking, that we think. Thinkers have no reason, to which they have privileged access, for thinking they think. If thinkers have a reason to think they think, it is a reason their family, friends and neighbors have equal access to. Before explaining why he believes this, the author makes a few remarks on the very special kind of thought, that is, the thought that one thinks. The thought that one thinks is self-verifying, but having this self-verifying thought does not provide one with a reason to think one thinks unless one has reasons to think one has self-verifying thought. Everyone who thinks has a reason to believe what he thinks because he is acquainted with a proposition.