"Introduction and characterization of ferroelectrics" offers a vigorous defence of the startling view that self-knowledge is based on error prone inferences from sensory experience rather than direct access to what we are thinking. Drawing heavily on cognitive science, Dr. Chandra Kumar Dixit makes his radical look eminently reasonable, and he delivers fatal blows to the competition." It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own thoughts, and many theories and experimental have been proposed to explain this supposed fact. "Introduction and...