The inessential indexical : on the philosophical insignificance of perspective and the first person / Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cappelen, Herman, author.

Dever, Josh, author.

Series:

Context and content.

Context and content

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perspective (Philosophy).

Indexicals (Semantics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

On the philosophical insignificance of perspective and the first person

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenomena in different ways, but to show that the entire topic is an illusion.

Contents:

1. Introductory overview : the role of indexicality

2. Preliminaries : language-mind, super indexicals, and opacity

3. Indexicality, the de se, and agency

4. Indexicality, opacity, and Fregeanism

5. Lewis on the de se, self-ascription, and centered worlds

6. Functionalism to the rescue?

7. Indexicality and immunity to error

8. A brief note on perceptual content and the de se

9. The de se and the semantics of PRO constructions

10. The view from everywhere.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-102257-8

0-19-874816-7

0-19-176682-8

0-19-151024-6

OCLC:

868975160