Caledonian, the science of physiology and evolution may have played a large role in the creation of your epistemology, but I don’t doubt that you also personally thought about the issues, paid attention to your own thinking to see if you were making mistakes, and so forth. Anyway, there’s no need to play the reflexive game of “you would have used introspection on your way to the conclusion that introspection can’t be used”, in order to combat the notion that introspection is completely unreliable. If it were completely unreliable you would never be accurate even when reporting your own opinions, except perhaps by chance.
You might be able to defend your position by saying that all partly reliable self-knowledge comes through sensory, quasi-sensory and proto-sensory modalities, and that it’s only a specific sort of self-”perception” that is 100% unreliable.
Caledonian, the science of physiology and evolution may have played a large role in the creation of your epistemology, but I don’t doubt that you also personally thought about the issues, paid attention to your own thinking to see if you were making mistakes, and so forth. Anyway, there’s no need to play the reflexive game of “you would have used introspection on your way to the conclusion that introspection can’t be used”, in order to combat the notion that introspection is completely unreliable. If it were completely unreliable you would never be accurate even when reporting your own opinions, except perhaps by chance.
You might be able to defend your position by saying that all partly reliable self-knowledge comes through sensory, quasi-sensory and proto-sensory modalities, and that it’s only a specific sort of self-”perception” that is 100% unreliable.