CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-AWARENESS .1. CONSCIOUSNESS(1), CONSCIOUSNESS(2), AND CONSCIOUSNESS(3)

Published in two parts, the present article addresses whether self-awa reness is necessarily involved in each of the six kinds of consciousne ss that The Oxford English Dictionary identifies under the word consci ousness. Pare I inquires into how, if at all, self-awareness enters co nsciousness(1): a cognitive relation between people in which they have joint and mutual cognizance; consciousness(2): a psychological proces s of conceiving of oneself in certain sorts of respects on a firsthand evidentiary basis; and consciousness(3): being occurrently aware of a nything at all, including nonexistent particulars. An instance of cons ciousness(1) may or may nor have a reflexive object, but it will perfo rce include both inner awareness and awareness of oneself as an object of the other's awareness. Consciousness(2) requires self-awareness in the forms of (a) witnessing or having witnessed potential evidence ab out oneself, (b) inner awareness of this witnessing when it occurred, (c) inner awareness and self-awareness as involved in (if necessary) r emembering having witnessed that evidence, (d) occurrent awareness of features of one's character or personality, and (e) bringing self-witn essed evidence to bear in judging of the latter. In contrast, consciou sness(3), which in a particular instance may be an occurrent self-awar eness, need not involve any self-awareness at all.