ABSTRACT
For some years now, Fred Dretske has been seeking a counter-etymological account of introspection -that is, a theory that does not portray introspection as anything like my looking inward and thereby finding out what is going on in my own mind. (Evidently he does not accept James Grier Miller's dictum that ontology recapitulates philology.) He has been uniformly and sharply critical ofLockean 'inner sense' views of introspection such as those defended by Armstrong (1968, 1981) and me (Lycan, 1987, 1996).
