 Carruthers’ objections are important and deserve to be taken seriously. To discuss them, however, we would need to introduce a lot of further empirical evidence and many complex philosophical ideas about self-knowledge. This is not a task that we can take up here (the interested reader is encouraged to read, in addition to Gordon (2007) and Goldman (2009), the SEP entries on  self-knowledge  and on  introspection).  The take-home message should be clear enough nonetheless: anybody who puts forward an account of mindreading should remember that such an account has to cohere with a plausible story about the cognitive mechanisms underlying self-attribution.