Peacocke rejects pure externalism, maintaining that when I self-attribute the belief that (say) in Australia July is a winter month, this self-attribution seems to me rational, in that I have an accessible, "personal-level" reason for it.
But on a single uniform attitude analysis, applied in what seems a natural and intuitive way, it seems these should consist in her directing the same attitude on the same proposition or, better, on her self-attributing the same property.
More moderately, in discussing attitudes, Dennett emphasizes how the act of formulating an attitude in language for example, when ordering a menu item can involve self-attributing a degree of specification in one's attitudes that was not present before, thereby committing one to, and partially or wholly creating, the specific attitude self-ascribed (1987, 20).
However, after the slow switch, (W‡) self-attributes a twin water thought and that thought is false.
Papineau offers a "quotational" account on which in introspection we self-attribute "the experience: ___", where the blank is completed by the experience itself.
One implication of this passage is that Hume's theory does not have the resources needed to explain how I can self-attribute various of my representations or their elements to a subject that is both conscious of them and the same subject for each act of their self-attribution.
His style is frequently described as unorthodox, with pundits agreeing with his self-assessment attributing his batting achievements to his hand-eye coordination, rather than his footwork or technique.
Mean proportions of Hits (self hand correctly attributed to self), Misses (self hand incorrectly attributed to other), Correct Rejections (other's hand correctly attributed to other) and False alarms (other's hand incorrectly attributed to self) are presented separately for the "Active" and "Passive" conditions in Figure 3.
Hofstadter observes, "It is hard to resist the conclusion that this enemy is on many counts a projection of the self; both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him," and he goes on: The Ku Klux Klan imitated Catholicism to the point of donning priestly vestments, developing an elaborate ritual and an equally elaborate hierarchy.
Autopoiesis is closely related to self-referentiality, or self-awareness attributes that we associate with human actors, and sees living systems as dualistic.
Peacocke argues that, in a broadly similar way, a conscious judgment that p can serve as a direct reason for my self-attributing the belief that p, without my having any distinct awareness of that judgment.
