 So far we’ve discussed issues almost entirely within the philosophy of mind. This is no accident—the central motivating phenomena for an account of self-locating belief are phenomena in the philosophy of mind, and the theoretical proposals for accommodating those phenomena are proposals in the philosophy of mind (or at least, are most centrally proposals in the philosophy of mind). Debates about whether to postulate a distinctive category of self-locating belief, and about the best theory of that distinctive category, are debates about the theoretical resources needed to properly characterize subjects’ doxastic states. The arguments we’ve considered all maintain that there are mental phenomena—ignorance, cognitive similarity or difference, immunity to error—that require special theoretical treatment featuring a particular category of mental states, the distinctively self-locating beliefs.