ABSTRACT
The infallibilist account of self-knowledge, developed thus far, is meant to be compatible with content externalism. However, Boghossian (1992a, b, 1994, 2010, 2014) has argued that such Burge-inspired accounts face (what I call) the Problem of Wayward Reflection via Thought Switching. Briefly, Boghossian highlights that in a “slow switch” scenario, it is still possible for a thinker to unwittingly equivocate when reasoning in the armchair. Such non-introspectable equivocation, moreover, is seen as cutting into the subject’s rationality. The worry, then, is that externalism remains incompatible with the kind of self-knowledge needed for rational reflection.
