Narrators and comparators: The architecture of agentive self-awareness

Elisabeth Pacherie (1) , Tim Bayne (2)

1 IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod
2 St. Catherine's College

This paper contrasts two approaches to agentive self-awareness: a high level, narrative-based account, and a low-level comparator-based account. We argue that an agent's narrative self-conception has a role to play in explaining their agentive judgments, but that agentive experiences are explained by low-level comparator mechanisms that are grounded in the very machinery responsible for action-production.

Mots clés: Agency; Narrative self-conception; Comparators; Agentive judgment; Agentive experience

Elisabeth Pacherie, Tim Bayne. Narrators and comparators: The architecture of agentive self-awareness. Synthese, 2007, 159, pp.475-491. ⟨10.1007/s11229-007-9239-9⟩. ⟨ijn_00352543⟩