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Banishing “I” and “we” from accounts of metacognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Bryce Huebner  and
Daniel C. Dennett
Bryce Huebner
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155huebner@wjh.harvard.eduhttp://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~huebner Cognitive Evolution Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. daniel.dennett@tufts.eduhttp://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm
Daniel C. Dennett
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155huebner@wjh.harvard.eduhttp://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~huebner
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Abstract

Carruthers offers a promising model for how “we” know the propositional contents of “our” own minds. Unfortunately, in retaining talk of first-person access to mental states, his suggestions assume that a higher-order self is already “in the loop.” We invite Carruthers to eliminate the first-person from his model and to develop a more thoroughly third-person model of metacognition.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 148 - 149
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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