Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge by Dorit Bar-On

Author:Dorit Bar-On [Bar-On, Dorit]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 0199276285

(ii)

When the relevant ascriptions fail, this is not due to a mis-taking, or a failed recognitional judgment that represents how the ascriber takes things (viz., taking someone to be herself).

(iii)

Though the ascriptions do not rest on recognitional judgments, and are epistemically immediate in relevant respects, they do have genuine semantic aboutness (viz., they involve genuine reference to myself).

Several comments are in order. We could say that, in general, an ascription is immune to error in a certain respect insofar as the subject issuing it is immune to error in the relevant respect, because she has not engaged in certain kinds of 'epistemic efforts'. In this vein, I have spoken of the fact that, for example, a subject who makes a proprioceptive report does not employ any thick means of identifying the subject of her report, and an avowing subject does not deploy any procedure

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