Self‐Knowledge and the Capacity to Judge

Abstract Several philosophers have sought to explain certain features of self‐knowledge our beliefs on the basis of the relation which holds between them and our judgments. Typically, these philosophers presuppose that there is just a single relation between these, for instance the relation of identity. In this essay, I shall claim that this presupposition is mistaken. Instead, I shall argue that because our capacity to judge has two functions, there are two different types of relation which hold between judgment and belief. In the final section, I show how this dual relations account can resolve an epistemological puzzle that is raised by ‘transparent’ self‐knowledge of one's own beliefs.