Peter Carruthers and Eric Schwitzgebel  Peter Carruthers (left)
and Eric Schwitzgebel (right) on self-knowledge of attitudes.
According to an intuitively plausible and widely accepted view,
we have direct, privileged, and highly reliable access to our
own beliefs. In the first part of this conversation, Carruthers
and Schwitzgebel both reject that view, while disagreeing about
the exact implications of empirical studies that are commonly
cited in debates on privileged access. But their positions raise
a nagging question: If we lack privileged access to our own
beliefs, then why does it seem to us that we have such access?
They defend different views (starting at 29:31) about the best
answer to that question.  Related works  by Carruthers: TOC and
Preface of The Opacity of Mind (forthcoming) with Mark
Engelbert: “Descriptive Experience Sampling: What Is It Good
For?” (2010) Introspection: Divided and Partly Eliminated”
(2010) How We Know Our Own Minds: The Relationship Between
Mindreading and Metacognition” (