Global broadcasting and self-interpretation

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (2):156-157 (2009)
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Abstract

In “How We Know Our Own Minds: The Relationship Between Mindreading and Metacognition,” Peter Carruthers argues for a view according to which first-person awareness of one’s own propositional attitudes is always interpretive, though one’s awareness of “sensory-imagistic” states is not. In this commentary, I criticize Carruthers’ way of drawing the distinction between sensory states and propositional attitudes. Furthermore, I argue for the superiority of a view, which I derive from Wilfrid Sellars, according to which all self-ascriptions of mental states are, at bottom, interpretive—i.e., the outputs of an inferential process that consists in applying a folk-psychological theory to oneself.

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Empiricism and the philosophy of mind.Wilfrid Sellars - 1956 - Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1:253-329.
Consciousness and Mind.David M. Rosenthal - 2005 - New York: Oxford University Press UK.

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