The Cognitive Science of Self-Awareness

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目的目标是开发一个新的心理模型，以了解我们对自己的命题态度（我们的信念，欲望，意图，判断，决定，假设等），整合来自认知科学的广泛结果。根据这个模型，我们对自己态度的认识总是解释性的，与我们对他人态度的了解没有什么不同。(The然而，模型允许我们更直接地获得我们自己的经验和感受。这项研究的主要成果将是一个跨学科的书。哲学家传统上认为，我们有直接的，非推理，？内省吗获得我们自己的命题的态度，和大多数普通人同意。即使是大多数认知科学家也认为这种传统模式是部分正确的。然而，来自认知科学不同领域的大量证据表明，人们往往会虚构出态度对自己的归因，同时保持他们在内省的印象。还有大量其他类型的科学数据，对我们自我认识的传统描述提出了挑战。这些形式的证据将被调查和评估，并提出模型将被开发，与一系列相关的替代方案进行比较，并根据证据进行辩护，该项目将汇集广泛的科学证据，以支持一个明确界定的大胆假设，这与常识和几乎所有哲学家（活着的或死去的）的观点完全冲突。由于很少有认知科学家认识到他们自己发现的理论意义和革命性影响，该项目也将对认知科学做出重要贡献。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The goal of the project is to develop a new psychological model of our access to our own propositional attitudes (our beliefs, desires, intentions, judgments, decisions, supposings, and the rest), integrating a wide range of results from across cognitive science. According to this model, our knowledge of our own attitudes is always interpretative, and is no different in kind from the access that we have to the attitudes of other people. (The model allows, however, that our access to our own experiences and feelings is more direct.) The main result of this research will be an interdisciplinary book.Philosophers have traditionally assumed that we have immediate, non-inferential, ?introspective? access to our own propositional attitudes, and most ordinary folk agree. Even most cognitive scientists believe that this traditional model is partially correct. Yet there is extensive evidence from different areas of cognitive science that people will often confabulate attributions of attitudes to themselves while remaining under the impression that they are introspecting. There is also plenty of scientific data of other sorts that challenges the traditional account of the character of our self-knowledge. These forms of evidence will be surveyed and evaluated, and the proposed model will be developed, compared with a range of relevant alternatives, and defended in the light of the evidence.The project will marshal a wide array of scientific evidence in support of a clearly delineated and bold hypothesis, which is radically in conflict with common sense and with the views of virtually all philosophers (alive or dead). Since few cognitive scientists have appreciated the theoretical significance and revolutionary implications of their own discoveries, the project will also make an important contribution to cognitive science.