Abstract: 

Epistemic self-consciousness

One of the main divisions in contemporary epistemology concerns the importance of the first-person perspective in knowledge.  Internalists and externalists disagree about the significance of what we can grasp when we become self-conscious about our grounds for believing something.  After taking a closer look at how we identify the grounds of our beliefs, I argue that both sides are partly right, but right about different kinds of belief formation. Meanwhile, both sides are also missing something important about the way in which our thinking changes when we reflect on our reasons for believing something.