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Peculiar access: Sartre, self-knowledge, and the question of the irreducibility of the first-person perspective

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In the debates on phenomenal consciousness that occurred over the last 20 years, Sartre’s analysis of pre-reflective consciousness has often been quoted in defense of a distinction between first and third-personal modes of givenness that naturalists reject. This distinction aims both at determining the specificity of the access one has to their own thoughts, beliefs, intentions or desires, and at justifying the particular privilege that one enjoys while making epistemic claims about their own mental states. This chapter defends an interpretation of Sartre’s theory of pre-reflective consciousness that does not put him completely at odds with the naturalist critique and stresses that one’s pre-reflective experience should not be understood in terms of first/third-person differentiation. This pre-reflective dimension of experience nevertheless allows a peculiar access to oneself, which grants no infallible epistemic privilege to the first-person, but lays the ground for a transformative process that makes self-knowledge possible.

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hal-04576857 , version 1 (15-05-2024)

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Pierre-Jean Renaudie, Jack Reynolds. Peculiar access: Sartre, self-knowledge, and the question of the irreducibility of the first-person perspective. Talia Morag. Sartre and Analytic Philosophy, Routledge, 2023, 9781138316058. ⟨10.4324/9780429455919-5⟩. ⟨hal-04576857⟩
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