Anosognosia and the Unity of Consciousness

Author: Nikolinakos a.D.

Source: Philosophical Studies, Volume 119, Number 3, June 2004 , pp. 315-342(28)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

There are researchers in cognitive science who use clinical and experimental evidence to draw some rather skeptical conclusions about a central feature of our conscious experience, its unity. They maintain that the examination of clinical phenomena reveals that human consciousness has a much more fragmentary character than the one we normally attribute to it. In the article, these claims are questioned by examining some of the clinical studies on the deficit of anosognosia. I try to show that these studies support a moderate sense of the unity of reflexive consciousness.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:PHIL.0000030435.87499.d4

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Athenes 15771, Greece dnikolin@cc.uoa.gr, Email: dnikolin@cc.uoa.gr

Publication date: 2004-06-01