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5Facets of Self-Consciousness (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2012.This special issue of _Grazer Philosophische Studien _brings together a number of carefully selected and timely articles that explore the discussion of different facets of self-consciousness from multiple perspectives. The selected articles mainly focus on three topics of the current debate: (1) the relationship between conceptual and nonconceptual ways of self-representation; (2) the role of intersubjectivity for the development of self-consciousness; (3) the temporal structure of self-consciou…Read more
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48How language shapes our minds: On the relationship between generics, stereotypes and social normsMind and Language 38 (4): 944-961. 2022.In this article, we discuss the role of labels and generics referring to social kinds in mindshaping practices, arguing that they promote generalizations that foster essentialist thinking and carry a normative force. We propose that their cognitive function consists in both contributing to the formation and reinforcement of schemata and scripts for social interaction and in activating these schemata in specific social situations. Moreover, we suggest that failure to meet the expectations engende…Read more
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40Reassessing the relationship between phenomenology and explanation: an introductionPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 (3): 549-556. 2023.This special issue is dedicated to reassessing the relationship between phenomenology and explanation. The editors’ introduction serves to provide a brief historical analysis of the sources and the reasons for thinking that phenomenology neither is nor ought to be explanatory before moving on to challenge this commonplace assumption by reference to Husserl, and by pointing out that there are various developments within the field of explanation that merit a re-examination of this topic. The intro…Read more
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43From Non-Self-Representationalism to the Social Structure of Pre-Reflective Self-ConsciousnessProtoSociology 36 243-263. 2019.Why should we think that there is such a thing as pre-reflective self-awareness? And how is this kind of self-awareness to be characterized? This paper traces a theoretical and a phenomenological line of argument in favor of the notion of pre-reflective self-consciousness and explores how this notion can be further illuminated by appealing to recent work in the analytical philosophy of language and mind. In particular, it argues that the self is not represented in the (nonconceptual) content of …Read more
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30Teaching Rationality—Sustained Shared Thinking as a Means for Learning to Navigate the Space of ReasonsJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (3): 582-599. 2020.Journal of Philosophy of Education, EarlyView.
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57Facets of self-consciousness - special issue edited by Katja Crone, Kristine Musholt and Anna Strasser (edited book)Consciousness and Cognition 84 (1). 2012.This special issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien brings together a number of carefully selected and timely articles that explore the discussion of different facets of self-consciousness from multiple perspectives. The selected articles mainly focus on three topics of the current debate: (1) the relationship between conceptual and nonconceptual ways of self-representation; (2) the role of intersubjectivity for the development of self-consciousness; (3) the temporal structure of self-consciousn…Read more
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167How can Searle avoid property dualism? Epistemic-ontological inference and autoepistemic limitationPhilosophical Psychology 19 (5): 589-605. 2006.Searle suggests biological naturalism as a solution to the mind-brain problem that escapes traditional terminology with its seductive pull towards either dualism or materialism. We reconstruct Searle's argument and demonstrate that it needs additional support to represent a position truly located between dualism and materialism. The aim of our paper is to provide such an additional argument. We introduce the concept of "autoepistemic limitation" that describes our principal inability to directly…Read more
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24Book review: A flawed challenge worth ponderingScience 339 (6125): 1277. 2013.Review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012. 140 pp. ISBN 9780199919758.
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60Perception, nonconceptual content, and immunity to error through misidentificationInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 60 (7): 703-723. 2017.The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we clarify the notion of immunity to error through misidentification with respect to the first-person pronoun. In particular, we set out to dispel the view that for a judgment to be IEM it must contain a token of a certain class of predicates. Rather, the importance of the IEM status of certain judgments is that it teaches us about privileged ways of coming to know about ourselves. We then turn to examine how perception, as a state with nonconceptual cont…Read more
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60Ipseity at the Intersection of Phenomenology, Psychiatry and Philosophy of Mind: Are we Talking about the Same Thing?Review of Philosophy and Psychology 9 (3): 689-701. 2018.In recent years, phenomenologically informed philosophers, psychologists and psychiatrists have attempted to import philosophical notions associated with the self into the empirical study of pathological experience. In particular, so-called ipseity disturbances have been put forward as generative of symptoms of schizophrenia, and several attempts have been made to operationalize and measure kinds and degrees of ipseity disturbances in schizophrenia. However, we find that this work faces challeng…Read more
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66Review of "The Self in Question" by Andy Hamilton (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2014 (7). 2014.
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45A philosophical perspective on the relation between cortical midline structures and the selfFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 (A536). 2013.In recent years there has been increasing evidence that an area in the brain called the cortical midline structures is implicated in what has been termed self-related processing. This article will discuss recent evidence for the relation between CMS and self-consciousness in light of several important philosophical distinctions. First, we should distinguish between being a self and being aware of being a self. While the former consists in having a first-person perspective on the world, the latte…Read more
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110Thinking about oneselfMIT Press. 2015.In this book, Kristina Musholt offers a novel theory of self-consciousness, understood as the ability to think about oneself. Traditionally, self-consciousness has been central to many philosophical theories. More recently, it has become the focus of empirical investigation in psychology and neuroscience. Musholt draws both on philosophical considerations and on insights from the empirical sciences to offer a new account of self-consciousness—the ability to think about ourselves that is at the c…Read more
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85Review of “Mind and Cosmos” by Thomas Nagel (review)Science 339 (6125): 1277. 2013.Review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012. 140 pp. ISBN 9780199919758.
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1175Self-consciousness and intersubjectivityGrazer Philosophische Studien 84 (1): 63-89. 2012.This paper distinguishes between implicit self-related information and explicit self-representation and argues that the latter is required for self-consciousness. It is further argued that self-consciousness requires an awareness of other minds and that this awareness develops over the course of an increasingly complex perspectival differentiation, during which information about self and other that is implicit in early forms of social interaction becomes redescribed into an explicit format.
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Der Selbstbegriff in Philosophie, Neurowissenschaften und Psychiatrie - Zum Spannungsverhältnis von Naturalismus und NormativitätIn Klaus Brücher (ed.), Selbstbestimmung. Zur Analyse eines modernen Projekts, Parodos. pp. 41-56. 2015.
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89The personal and the subpersonal in the theory of mind debatePhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (2): 305-324. 2018.It is a widely accepted assumption within the philosophy of mind and psychology that our ability for complex social interaction is based on the mastery of a common folk psychology, that is to say that social cognition consists in reasoning about the mental states of others in order to predict and explain their behavior. This, in turn, requires the possession of mental-state concepts, such as the concepts belief and desire. In recent years, this standard conception of social cognition has been ca…Read more
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21Self-consciousness: from nonconceptual content to the concept of a selfDissertation, Humboldt-University Berlin. 2010.
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211Self-consciousness and nonconceptual contentPhilosophical Studies 163 (3): 649-672. 2013.Self-consciousness can be defined as the ability to think 'I'-thoughts. Recently, it has been suggested that self-consciousness in this sense can (and should) be accounted for in terms of nonconceptual forms of self-representation. Here, I will argue that while theories of nonconceptual self-consciousness do provide us with important insights regarding the essential genetic and epistemic features of self-conscious thought, they can only deliver part of the full story that is required to understa…Read more
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60Immunity to Error through Misidentification: New Essays, edited by Simon Prosser and François Recanati (review)Mind 123 (492): 1228-1234. 2014.