Bibliographical data for
Authors
Title of Edited Collection
Open MIND
Editors
Publication Date
January 2015
Publication Place
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
ISBN
9783958570467
Abstract
Our commentary focuses on the sense of experiential ownership and its implications for the Immunity Principle. In general we think that Liang elaborates the self-as-object and the self-as-subject in an interesting and refreshing way. Nevertheless, there are some problems that we want to address. (1) First, we argue that the sense of experiential ownership cannot misrepresent the fact of experiential ownership. (2) Second, we argue that neither the sense of experiential ownership in particular nor phenomenal states in general are eligible for identity judgments. (3) Then we claim that the two alleged counterexamples actually do not provide any valid argument against IEM. (4) We close by evaluating whether it makes sense to talk about the Immunity Principle as a non-trivial property, or whether the relevant properties are just mispredication or misguided reference.
Keywords
Body-ownership,
Body-swap illusion,
De re misidentification,
Fact of experiential ownership,
Identification-freedom,
Immunity to error through misidentification,
Immunity to misguided reference,
Judgments,
Mispredication,
Self-as-object,
Self-as-subject,
Sense of experiential ownership,
Somatoparaphrenia,
Which-object misidentification