# A guide to Shoemaker’s ‘Self-knowledge and inner sense’ **Opening (not a real abstract):** 1 Self-knowledge as ‘object perception’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Perception according to the object perception model . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Problems with the neutral conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 The lack of an organ of introspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.2 The lack of sensory ‘appearances’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Problems with the object-model conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.1 Knowledge of the self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.2 Knowledge of beliefs, desires, and intentions . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.3 Knowledge of sensations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.4 The role of attention in knowledge of sensations and intentional states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . **Authors:** [[Jeff Speaks]]