Memory and self-consciousness: immunity to error through misidentification |
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Authors: | Andy Hamilton |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Philosophy, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3HP, UK
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Abstract: | In The Blue Book, Wittgenstein defined a category of uses of “I” which he termed “I”-as-subject, contrasting them with “I”-as-object uses. The hallmark of this category is immunity to error through misidentification (IEM). This article extends Wittgenstein’s characterisation to the case of memory-judgments, discusses the significance of IEM for self-consciousness—developing the idea that having a first-person thought involves thinking about oneself in a distinctive way in which one cannot think of anyone or anything else—and refutes a common objection to the claim that memory-judgments exhibit IEM. |
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