MindPapers: 5.2e. Infallibility and Incorrigibility

Armstrong, David M. (1963). Is introspective knowledge incorrigible? Philosophical Review 62 (October):417-32. (Cited by 17 | Google | More links)

Armstrong, David M. (1976). Incorrigibility, materialism, and causation. Philosophical Studies 30 (August):125-28. (Google | More links)

Atwell, John E. (1966). Austin on incorrigibility. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 27 (December):261-266. (Google | More links)

Audi, Robert N. (1974). The limits of self-knowledge. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (December):253-267. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Bailey, George (1979). Pappas, incorrigibility, and science. Philosophical Studies 35 (April):319-321. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Beck, Lewis White (1948). Self-justification in epistemology. Journal of Philosophy 45 (10):253-260. (Google | More links)

Berofsky, Bernard (1958). Minkus-Benes on incorrigibility. Mind 67 (April):264-266. (Google | More links)

Carruthers, Peter (ms). Cartesian epistemology. (Google)

Abstract: This paper argues that a Cartesian belief in the self-transparency of minds might actually be an innate aspect of our mind-reading faculty. But it acknowledges that some crucial evidence needed to establish this claim hasn’t been looked for or collected. What we require is evidence that a belief in the self-transparency of mind is universal to the human species. The paper closes with a call to anthropologists (and perhaps also developmental psychologists), who are in a position to collect such evidence, encouraging them to do so

Chandler, J. H. (1970). Incorrigibity and classification. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48 (May):101-6. (Google)

Costa, Claudio F. (2001). I'm thinking. Ratio 14 (3):222-233. (Google | More links)

Dauer, Francis W. (1981). Incorrigibility. Ratio 23 (December):98-113. (Google)

Doppelt, Gerald (1978). Incorrigibility and the mental. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 56 (May):3-20. (Google | More links)

Dunlop, Charles E. M. (1977). Lehrer and Ellis on incorrigibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 55 (December):201-5. (Google | More links)

Ellis, Brian (1976). Avowals are more corrigible than you think. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 55 (August):201-5. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Evans, J. L. (1978). Knowledge And Infallibility. St Martin's Press. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Exdell, John & Hamilton, James (1975). The incorrigibility of first person disavowals. Personalist 56:389-394. (Google)

Feldman, Fred & Heidelberger, Herbert (1973). Tormey on access and incorrigibility. Journal of Philosophy 70 (May):297-298. (Google | More links)

Fleming, Brice N. (1965). Price on infallibility. Mind 75 (April):193-210. (Google | More links)

Gotlind, Erik (1952). Some comments on mistakes in statements concerning sense-data. Mind 61 (July):297-306. (Google | More links)

Hales, Steven D. (1994). Certainty and phenomenal states. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (1):57-72. (Google)

Hansson, Bengt (2006). Infallibility and incorrigibility. In Erik J. Olsson (ed.), Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Google)

Harrison, Jonathan (1984). The incorrigibility of the cogito. Mind 93 (July):321-335. (Google | More links)

Jackson, Frank (1967). A note on incorrigibility and authority. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 45 (December):358-363. (Google | More links)

Jackson, Frank (1973). Is there a good argument against the incorrigibility thesis? Australasian Journal of Philosophy 51 (May):51-62. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Jacobsen, Rockney (1997). Self-quotation and self-knowledge. Synthese 110 (3):419-445. (Cited by 4 | Google | More links)

Abstract: I argue that indirect quotation in the first person simple present tense (self-quotation) provides a class of infallible assertions. The defense of this conclusion examines the joint descriptive and constitutive functions of performative utterances and argues that a parallel treatment of belief ascription is in order. The parallel account yields a class of infallible belief ascriptions that makes no appeal to privileged modes of access. Confronting a dilemma formulated by Crispin Wright for theories of self-knowledge gives an epistemological setting for the account of infallible belief ascription

Johnson, Sidney D. (1970). Statements and incorrigibility. Mind 79 (October):600-601. (Google | More links)

Kaufman, Frederik (1990). Conceptual necessity, causality and self-ascriptions of sensation. International Studies in Philosophy 22:3-11. (Google)

Kekes, John (1983). An argument against foundationalism. Philosophia 12 (March):273-281. (Google | More links)

Kroiter, Edward (1972). On defining incorrigibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50 (December):279-282. (Google | More links)

Langtry, Bruce N. (1970). Perception and corrigibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48 (December):369-372. (Google | More links)

Mackie, J. L. (1963). Are there any incorrigible empirical statements? Australasian Journal of Philosophy 41 (May):12-28. (Google | More links)

Margolis, Joseph (1964). Certainty about sensations. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (December):242-247. (Google | More links)

Margolis, Joseph (1970). Indubitability, self-intimating states, and privileged access. Journal of Philosophy 67 (21):918-31. (Google | More links)

Mucciolo, Laurence F. (1974). Incorrigibility revisited. Personalist 55:253-260. (Google)

Nakhnikian, George (1968). Incorrigibility. Philosophical Quarterly 18 (July):207-15. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Nolan, Lawrence & Whipple, John (2005). Self-knowledge in Descartes and Malebranche. Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (1). (Google)

Noren, Stephen J. (1973). A note on statements and incorrigibility. Mind 82 (April):273-275. (Google | More links)

Pappas, George S. (1975). Defining incorrigibility. Personalist 56:395-402. (Google)

Pappas, George S. (1976). Incorrigibility and central-state materialism. Philosophical Studies 29 (June):445-56. (Google | More links)

Pappas, George S. (1975). Incorrigibilism and future science. Philosophical Studies 28 (September):207-210. (Google | More links)

Pappas, George S. (1974). Incorrigibility, knowledge, and justification. Philosophical Studies 25 (April):219-25. (Google | More links)

Pappas, George S. (1980). Reply to Bailey. Philosophical Studies 37 (February):201-202. (Google | More links)

Parent, T. (2007). Infallibilism about self-knowledge. Philosophical Studies 133 (3):411-424. (Google | More links)

Abstract: Descartes held the view that a subject has infallible beliefs about the contents of her thoughts. Here, I first examine a popular contermporary defense of this claim, given by Burge, and find it lacking. I then offer my own defense appealing to a minimal thesis about the compositionality of thoughts. The argument has the virtue of refraining from claims about whether thoughts are “in the head;” thus, it is congenial to both internalists and externalists. The considerations here also illuminate how a subject may have epistemicially priviledged and a priori beliefs about her own thoughts

Raff, Charles (1966). Introspection and incorrigibility. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 27 (September):69-73. (Google | More links)

Reichenbach, Hans (1952). Are phenomenal reports absolutely certain? Philosophical Review 61 (April):147-159. (Cited by 6 | Google | More links)

Robinson, Richard H. (1972). The concept of incorrigibility. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (June):427-441. (Google)

Rorty, Richard (1970). Incorrigibility as the mark of the mental. Journal of Philosophy 67 (June):399-424. (Cited by 22 | Google | More links)

Rorty, Richard (1974). More on incorrigibility. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (September):195-197. (Google)

Scheer, Richard K. (1998). How to criticize an incorrigibility thesis. Philosophical Investigations 21 (4):359-368. (Google | More links)

Scherer, Donald (1973). Incorrigibilist dilemmas. Southern Journal of Philosophy 11:237-239. (Google)

Sheridan, Gregory (1969). The electroencephalogram argument against incorrigibility. American Philosophical Quarterly 6 (January):62-70. (Google)

Shirley, Edward S. (1976). 'Appear' and incorrigibility. Southern Journal of Philosophy 14:197-201. (Google)

Smart, J. J. C. (1962). Brain processes and incorrigibility - a reply to professor Baier. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 40 (May):68-70. (Google)

Smart, J. J. C. (1962). Brain processes and incorrigibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 40:68-70. (Annotation | Google)

Solomon, Robert C. (1975). Minimal incorrigibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 53 (December):254-56. (Google | More links)

Thalberg, Irving (1965). Looks, impressions and incorrigibility. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (March):365-374. (Google | More links)

Tomberlin, James E. (1975). A problem with incorrigibility. Philosophia 5 (October):507-12. (Google | More links)

Tormey, Alan (1973). Access, incorrigibility, and identity. Journal of Philosophy 70 (8):115-128. (Google | More links)

van Rappard, J. F. H. (1979). Psychology as Self-Knowledge: The Development of the Concept of the Mind in German Rationalistic Psychology and its Relevance Today. Van Gorcum. (Google)

Verges, F. G. (1974). Jackson on incorrigibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 52 (December):243-50. (Google | More links)

Warner, Richard (1993). Incorrigibility. In Howard M. Robinson (ed.), Objections to Physicalism. Oxford University Press. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Waters, Bruce (1942). Basic sentences and incorrigibility. Philosophy of Science 9 (July):239-244. (Google | More links)

Weinberg, Julius R. (1977). Ockham, Descartes, and Hume: Self-Knowledge, Substance, and Causality. University of Wisconsin Press. (Google)

Winkler, Earl (1969). Incorrigibility: The standard contemporary doctrine. Personalist 50:179-193. (Google)

Zimmerman, Aaron Z. (ms). Infallible introspection. (Google)

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