ABSTRACT
Initially, this book may seem to be philosophical excess of the worst kind. It can look like wishful thinking, a panicky response to legitimate scientific results about the limits of self-knowledge. For, despite ample evidence of these limits, the book argues that many beliefs about one’s own mind are not just reliable; they can be infallible in the way Descartes suggested. Such a view, if not anti-scientific, will at least seem quixotic.
