 More specifically, the parts of philosophy of language concerned with communication—in particular, with the individual or collective mental states and attitudes that give rise to, and are produced by or updated in response to, various speech acts—must be sensitive to what we say about the objects and the structure of those attitudes when we’re doing philosophy of mind. If our philosophy of mind includes a distinctive category of self-locating belief, that’s liable to raise downstream questions in the philosophy of language, about (for example) how self-locating beliefs are (or are not) implicated in the production of various speech acts, how interlocutors update their self-locating beliefs (or don’t) in response to various speech acts, and about the place of self-locating beliefs in speakers’ communicative intentions or in the conversational common ground.