A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. It has often been held that we alone have access to our own thoughts and sensations (private or privileged access). See also PRIVATE LANGUAGE, and (for a different use of ‘access’) POSSIBLE WORLDS.
W.Alston, ‘Varieties of privileged access’.
American Philosophical Quarterly, 1971, reprinted in R.M.Chisholm and R.J.Swartz (eds), Empirical Knowledge, Prentice-Hall, 1973.
J.Heil, ‘Privileged access’, Mind, 1988, with discussions by N.Georgalis and A.Brueckner in Mind, 1990. (B.Brewer in Mind, 1992 is also relevant.)
N.Malcolm. ‘The privacy of experience’, in A.Stroll (ed.) Epistemology, Harper and Row, 1967. (Discusses an ambiguity, and then the issue itself.)
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