Abstract

VIDAL, Javier. Immunity to Error Through Misidentification: the Problem of Narrowing. discus.filos [online]. 2018, vol.19, n.33, pp.39-56. ISSN 0124-6127.  https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2018.19.33.4.

This paper explores a solution to the problem of a narrowing of the scope of immunity to error through misidentification. It is the challenge of leaving out propioception-based self-ascriptions, among others. In Coliva’s framework, these judgments are immune because there is not an identification as part of the thinker’s rational grounds. The problem is that there seems to be judgments without any significant immunity which also satisfy Coliva’s criterion. Here I propose that, in spite of appearances, these challenging cases do involve an identification from the rational perspective of the thinker. However, such an identification is not the premise of a conscious inference but an implicit reason a thinker would appeal to if he were requested to justify his final judgment.

Keywords : First-person; identification; immunity; narrowing; Annalisa Coliva.

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