Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

In this paper I investigate the significance of thought insertion for debates about
introspection-based psychological self-ascriptions and their alleged immunity to error
through misidentification relative to the first-person concept. Focusing on the
phenomenon of “which-object” misidentification I argue that: First, thought insertion
presents no counterexample to the immunity of such self-ascriptions. Secondly, a
metasemantic account of immunity to error through which-object misidentification
explains why all introspection-based psychological self-ascriptions enjoy this special
epistemic property.