Memory and self-consciousness
immunity to error through misidentification
pp. 409-417
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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Published in:
Kallestrup Jesper, Pritchard Duncan (2009) The philosophy of Crispin Wright. Synthese 171 (3).
Pages: 409-417
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9318-6
Full citation:
Hamilton Andy (2009) „Memory and self-consciousness: immunity to error through misidentification“. Synthese 171 (3), 409–417.