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Which Immunity to Error?

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Two accounts of immunity to error through misidentification relative to the first-person pronoun are in currency. I argue that only one of these captures that class of self-ascriptions that are central to self-consciousness.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK

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Thanks to Lucy O’Brien, Mike Martin, Hannah Pickard, Ann Whittle and audiences in London, Glasgew, Bristol and Dubrovnik.

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Smith, J. Which Immunity to Error?. Philos Stud 130, 273–283 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-004-4513-x

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