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Eric Schwitzgebel

Introspection is not the discovery of a pre-existing inner content. The medium of cognition shapes what cognition can take itself to be.

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Introspection is not the discovery of a pre-existing inner content

The medium of cognition shapes what cognition can take itself to be

every individual method has known failure modes

The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
“Every individual method has known failure modes: naive introspection (Schwitzgebel);”
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"Naive introspection is unreliable"
Asserted by Eric Schwitzgebel · stance: pro
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The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth ↗
Disputed
"the interiority and analytic separation that allow Schwitzgebel to even pose the question "how reliable is introspection?" are themselves artifacts of the alphabetic medium"
Asserted by Walter Ong · stance: pro
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The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth ↗
2011
2011
publication of Perplexities of Consciousness