Control, Attitudes de se and Immunity to Error Through Misidentification
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia August 31, 2014 Gaetano Fiorin, Denis Delfitto 4 citations
The article examines James Higginbotham's claim that the silent subject of infinitival complements after verbs like 'remember' and 'imagine' is unambiguously de se and immune to error through misidentification relative to the matrix subject. The authors criticize Higginbotham's reflexive analysis and show that similar criticisms apply to accounts using acquaintance relations or centered possible worlds. Drawing on cognitive science, they propose an amendment based on the idea that the thematic role 'Experiencer' maps events into 'minimal selves' as defined by Shaun Gallagher.