ABSTRACT

This book aims to develop an increasingly nuanced infallibilist view of self-knowledge-a Cartesian-inspired view where a subject cannot be wrong, when sincerely self-attributing specific kinds of mental states. But to be clear: The premises will always include some substantive, falsifiable, empirical hypothesis, thus leaving room for rational doubt. So the book in no way attempts to prove such infallibilism. It instead develops the best sort of infallibilism that can stand as a viable albeit empirically corrigible hypothesis.1