Self-consciousness and the double immunity

Philosophy 75 (294):539-570 (2000)
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It is accepted that first-person thoughts are immune to error through misidentification. I argue that there is also immunity to error through misascription, failure to recognise which has resulted in mistaken claims that first-person thoughts involving the self-ascription of bodily states are, at best, circumstantially immune to error through misidentification relative to.

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Andrea Christofidou
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