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Thinking about the body as subject

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

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Daniel Morgan*
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Department of Philosophy, University of York, York, UK
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Abstract

The notion of immunity to error through misidentification (IEM) has played a central role in discussions of first-person thought. It seems like a way of making precise the idea of thinking about oneself ‘as subject’. Asking whether bodily first-person judgments (e.g. ‘My legs are crossed’) can be IEM is a way of asking whether one can think about oneself simultaneously as a subject and as a bodily thing. The majority view is that one cannot. I rebut that view, arguing that on all the notions of IEM that have so far been successfully defined, bodily first-person judgments can be IEM.

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De sefirst-personimmunity to error through misidentificationmemoryquasi-memoryproprioceptionprivileged accessintrospection
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , June 2019 , pp. 435 - 457
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Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2018

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