Immunity to Error through Misidentification
New Essays

Devoted exclusively to the topic, this book analyses immunity to error through misidentification as an important feature of personal judgments.

Simon Prosser (Edited by), François Recanati (Edited by)

9780521198301, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 April 2012

304 pages, 1 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.61 kg

'This excellent volume offers thirteen new essays on IEM, which collectively attempt to get clearer on the nature and scope of the phenomenon … the volume as a whole stands as an important contribution to scholarship on immunity to error through misidentification and neighbouring philosophical questions. It will no doubt be a major source of ideas and inspiration for future work on these issues.' Philosophy in Review

Immunity to error through misidentification is recognised as an important feature of certain kinds of first-person judgments, as well as arguably being a feature of other indexical or demonstrative judgments. In this collection of newly commissioned essays, the contributors present a variety of approaches to it, engaging with historical and empirical aspects of the subject as well as contemporary philosophical work. It is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the topic and will be essential reading for anyone interested in philosophical work on the self, first-person thought or indexical thought more generally.

1. On the thesis that 'I' is not a referring term John Campbell
2. Which 'key to all mythologies' about the self? - A note on where the illusions of transcendence come from and how to resist them Annalisa Coliva
3. Two takes on the de se Marina Folescu and James Higginbotham
4. Immunity to error as an artefact of transition between representational media Jenann Ismael
5. Two uses of 'I' as subject? Béatrice Longuenesse
6. Immunity to error through misidentification: what does it tell us about the de se? Daniel Morgan
7. Action and immunity to error through misidentification Lucy O'Brien
8. Explaining de se phenomena Christopher Peacocke
9. Sources of immunity to error through misidentification Simon Prosser
10. Immunity to error through misidentification: what it is and where it comes from François Recanati
11. I and I: immunity to error through misidentification of the subject Galen Strawson
12. Bodily immunity to error Frédérique de Vignemont
13. Reflections on François Recanati's 'Immunity to error through misidentification: what it is and where it comes from' Crispin Wright.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge [HPK], Philosophy [HP]