Practical knowledge

in the sense made famous by G. E. M. Anscombe

is “the knowledge that a man has of his intentional actions”. This knowledge is very ordinary

but philosophically it is not easy to understand. One illuminating approach is to see practical knowledge as a kind of self-knowledge or self-consciousness. I offer an enrichment of this approach

by (1) exploiting Gilbert Ryle’s discussion of heeding (that is

paying attention)

in particular paying attention to one’s own intentional action

and (2) constructing and applying a practical analogue of Kant’s apperceptive “I think”. Combining (1) and (2)

I offer an argument for my main claim—paying attention to what one is doing is an exercise of practical self-consciousness – it is how practical self-consciousness gets “schematized”.