Self Attribution of Experience

Jordi Fernandez (University of Adelaide), Philip Gerrans (University of Adelaide)

RB  is a neuropsychological patient who reports  that he has vivid and accurate  episodic memory experiences which nonetheless do not feel as if they belong to him. We present and discuss RB's phenomenology as a starting point to evaluate philosophical/psychological  accounts of the nature of subjectivity or "mineness" of experience. In particular we present versions of endorsement  and affective/depersonalisation accounts and assess the prospects for unifying theories of the phenomenon.