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Making a case for introspection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Alexandra Zinck ,
Sanne Lodahl  and
Chris D. Frith
Alexandra Zinck
Affiliation:
LWL-Universitätsklinik Bochum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Psychiatrie–Psychotherapie–Psychosomatik–Präventivmedizin, Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44791 Bochum, Germanyalexandra.zinck@rub.dehttp://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/staff/zinck/index.html
Sanne Lodahl
Affiliation:
Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Danish National Research Foundation, and Institute of Philosophy and History of Ideas (IFI), and Faculty of Humanities, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, 8000 Aarhus, Denmarksanne@pet.auh.dkwww.cfin.au.dk/menu478-en
Chris D. Frith
Affiliation:
Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Danish National Research Foundation, and Institute of Philosophy and History of Ideas (IFI), and Faculty of Humanities, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, 8000 Aarhus, Denmarksanne@pet.auh.dkwww.cfin.au.dk/menu478-en Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom. cfrith@fil.ion.ucl.ac.ukhttp://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Frith/
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Abstract

Defending first-person introspective access to own mental states, we argue against Carruthers' claim of mindreading being prior to meta-cognition and for a fundamental difference between how we understand our own and others' mental states. We conclude that a model based on one mechanism but involving two different kinds of access for self and other is sufficient and more consistent with the evidence.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 163 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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