Immunity to Error through Misidentification and Essential Indexicality

21.-22. September 2012, Konstanz

The workshop will bring together recent developments in the discussion of immunity to error through misidentification (IEM) and explore the connections between IEM and essential indexicality. Further, we wish to examine the implications which psychiatric symptoms such as thought insertion may have on IEM and essential indexicality.

Talks will address issues such as these:

• What types of IEM are there? Which thoughts are IEM?

• What is the role of identification processes in the explanation of IEM?

• Can a better understanding of IEM improve our understanding of essential indexicality?

• Can the psychiatric symptom of thought insertion shed any new light on the question how we know ourselves to be the thinker of our thoughts?

• It is sometimes held that in IEM-thoughts I cannot falsely take somebody else to be the thinker of my thoughts. What does it mean to be the thinker of a thought (authorship vs. ownership)?

Program; Program and abstracts can be downloaded here
Friday, 21.9.

10.00-11.00	Welcome and introduction
11.30-12.30	John Schwenkler (Mount St. Marys, Emmitsburg): Self-Consciousness in Thought and Action
14.00-15.00	Simon Prosser (St. Andrews): The Structure of Indexical Belief
15.30-16.30	François Recanati (Paris): Immunity to error through misidentification in the mental file framework
17.00-18.00	Annalisa Coliva (Modena): Logical immunity to error through misidentification. What it is and why it matters

Saturday, 22.9.

9.00-10.0	Daniel Morgan (Oxford): Why Physical Self-Ascriptions can be Immune to Error Through Misidentification in the Strongest Possible Sense
10.00-11.00	Kristina Musholt (London): Immunity to error through misidentification and the content of perception
11.30-12.30	Michael Pauen (Berlin): Self-Consciousness and the Immunity to error through misidentification

The workshop will take place at the University of Konstanz, Germany, as a satellite event subsequent to the GAP.8. There will be a conference dinner on Friday night.

We welcome everyone interested to attend the workshop. Participation is free, please register by sending an email to Max Seeger stating name, affiliation, email, and participation in Workshop Dinner.