'I'-thoughts and explanation: Reply to Garrett
Philosophical Quarterly 53 (212):432–436 (2003)
| Abstract | Brian Garrett has criticized my diagnosis of the paradox of self-consciousness. In reply, I focus on the classification of 'I'-thoughts, and show how the notion of immunity to error through misidentification can be used to characterize 'I'-thoughts, even though an important class of 'I'-thoughts (those whose expression involves what Wittgenstein called the use of 'I' as object) are not themselves immune to error through misidentification. 'I'-thoughts which are susceptible to error through misidentification are dependent upon those which are not. The dependence here has to do with how a thinker understands what would defeat such thoughts | |||||||||
| Keywords | Epistemology Error Explanation I Self-consciousness Thought Garrett, B | |||||||||
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