RT Article
T1 Subjektivität und Naturalismus
JF Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
VO 133
IS 3/4
SP 340
OP 360
A1 Wehinger, Daniel
LA German
PB Echter
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1757897836
AB By reference to Nagel's classical paper, »What is it like to be a bat?«, I analyze the subjectivity of consciousness. I then go on to discuss two physicalistic attempts to reduce consciousness: Rosenthal's higher-order thought theory and Kriegel's self-representationalism. Both theories, I argue, fail because they presuppose self-consciousness and are unable to reduce it. This leads me to consider the relation between subjectivity and self-consciousness. I conclude that every conscious State, in that it is subjective, is, in a basic sense, self-conscious too. Therefore, consciousness can only be reduced if self-consciousness is.