Enactivism as a new version of externalism and the problems of self-knowledge

Abstract

The main topic of this article concerns the question, whether the self-knowledge can be still authoritative from the enactivistic point of view. The problem rests on two assumptions: 1. The definition of self-knowledge claims that a subject has a direct given knowledge about an intentional contents of his attitudes. 2. The content of subject’s attitudes is determined by external factors, which could be unknown to the subject. It means that the subject has the limited access to the content or its determinants understood as satisfaction conditions of his mental states. On this basis of the obvious conflict between the two theses the first-person-authority can be questioned