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  • Chapter 3 - Thinking about the self

  • Edited by JeeLoo Liu, California State University, Fullerton, John Perry, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Consciousness and the Self
    Published online:
    05 December 2011
    Print publication:
    17 November 2011, pp 76-100

  • Summary

    This chapter first constructs an account of self-beliefs that distinguishes them from beliefs that are merely about the person one happens to be. Next, it considers issues raised by David Rosenthal in his chapter in this book about what he calls the "essential indexicality" of Higher-Order Thoughts (HOTs). Rosenthal's account involves giving up Sydney Shoemaker's principle that a person is immune to certain sorts of errors about her own mental states, namely, whether it is she that is having them. The chapter argues that we should not give up Shoemaker's principle, and that we need not do so to account for the feature of HOTS that Rosenthal calls their "essential indexicality". These issues are crucial for those who are inclined to accept Rosenthal's account of consciousness, in which HOTS play a crucial role.