Immunity to Error through Misidentification: New Essays

Cambridge University Press, 4/5/2012
EAN 9780521198301, ISBN10: 0521198305

Hardcover, 304 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English

Immunity to error through misidentification is recognised as an important feature of certain kinds of first-person judgments, as well as arguably being a feature of other indexical or demonstrative judgments. In this collection of newly commissioned essays, the contributors present a variety of approaches to it, engaging with historical and empirical aspects of the subject as well as contemporary philosophical work. It is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the topic and will be essential reading for anyone interested in philosophical work on the self, first-person thought or indexical thought more generally.

1. On the thesis that 'I' is not a referring term John Campbell
2. Which 'key to all mythologies' about the self? - A note on where the illusions of transcendence come from and how to resist them Annalisa Coliva
3. Two takes on the de se Marina Folescu and James Higginbotham
4. Immunity to error as an artefact of transition between representational media Jenann Ismael
5. Two uses of 'I' as subject? Béatrice Longuenesse
6. Immunity to error through misidentification
what does it tell us about the de se? Daniel Morgan
7. Action and immunity to error through misidentification Lucy O'Brien
8. Explaining de se phenomena Christopher Peacocke
9. Sources of immunity to error through misidentification Simon Prosser
10. Immunity to error through misidentification
what it is and where it comes from François Recanati
11. I and I
immunity to error through misidentification of the subject Galen Strawson
12. Bodily immunity to error Frédérique de Vignemont
13. Reflections on François Recanati's 'Immunity to error through misidentification
what it is and where it comes from' Crispin Wright.

'… highly recommend[ed] … to those interested in this topic, and I consider it essential reading to those who follow and participate in recent discussions in self-knowledge.' George Lăzăroiu, Review of Contemporary Philosophy