Abstract

This chapter applies the metaphysics of knowledge to the mind, the other _relatum_ of the knowledge relation. The discussion proceeds as follows. Section 1 discusses the problem of introspective self-knowledge, and Section 2 introduces the problem of consciousness. Section 3 discusses the considerations that might lead us to posit _qualia_ as real universals. Section 4 discusses the problem of the necessary co-occurrence of a conscious state and the consciousness of it. Section 5 introduces Reid's Identity Thesis and restates it in terms of the metaphysics of this book. Section 6 suggests that the Identity Thesis has some important advantages. Section 7 argues that it is an objection to functionalism that it is inconsistent with the Identity Thesis.