Salje, L-C (2017) Crossed wires about crossed wires: somatosensation and immunity to error through misidentification. Dialectica, 71 (1). pp. 35-56. ISSN 0012-2017
Abstract
Suppose that the following describes an intelligible scenario. A subject is wired up to another's body in such a way that she has bodily experiences ‘as from the inside’ caused by states and events in the other body, that are subjectively indistinguishable from ordinary somatosensory perception of her own body. The supposed intelligibility of such so-called crossed wire cases constitutes a significant challenge to the claim that our somatosensory judgements are immune to error through misidentification relative to uses of the first person pronoun. After all, the subject in this case is liable to commit precisely the sort of error ruled out by such a claim. In this paper I argue that the proponent of this challenge must establish at least two things: that the subject is committing an error of misidentification, and that her judgement shares its epistemic grounds with our ordinary somatosensory judgements. Neither condition, I argue, can be reached from the stipulations permitted into the starting descriptions of the cases.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Salje, L-C (2017) Crossed wires about crossed wires: somatosensation and immunity to error through misidentification. Dialectica, 71 (1). pp. 35-56 , which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1746-8361.12170 . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2017 11:14 |
Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2018 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1746-8361.12170 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:113188 |