ABSTRACT
The starting-point for this argument is our knowledge both of the existence and nature of our own minds. After all, we cannot seriously doubt that we have a mind, since who then would be doing the doubting? (This is the point of Descartes ‘cogito’: ‘I think, therefore I am’). Moreover, it is also held that there cannot be any troubling sceptical argument concerning our access to what is going on in our own minds because this access is privileged. That is, we have immediate non-inferential access to what is going on in our own minds – what we are thinking and feeling – and this means that our knowledge in this regard is entirely secure (at least if any knowledge is). It follows that we can put our knowledge of our own minds together with our knowledge of how we, as minded creatures, behave, to determine what sort of behaviour a minded creature should have.
