Responses to Commentators

All four contributors to this symposium provide insightful and challenging comments on Introspection . They each examine different parts of the book: Anna Giustina focuses on inner attention as a mental capacity, exploring how to account for its effects on the flow of experience. Jorge Morales probes the extent of my criticism of confidence ratings in contemporary science of consciousness. Adriana Renero raises concerns about my pluralist account of introspective access. Wayne Wu queries the structure of the basic framework I put forward. All of them offer their critical engagement in a thoroughly constructive spirit, keen to emphasize common ground as much as disagreement or suggestion for amendment. This made their comments helpfully diagnostic, indicating specific places that need further development or argumentation but also highlighting the significance of different theoretical starting points and perspectives in approaching the topics with which Introspection deals. I address what I take to be the main challenges posed in their comments, but all the points and questions raised have had an influence on my thinking about the issues involved. I am very grateful to the four contributors and to Katia Samoilova Franco for organizing and overseeing it all.