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I: The Meaning of the First Person Term - Maximilian de Gaynesford

I: The Meaning of the First Person Term

Buch | Hardcover
212 Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-928782-6 (ISBN)
CHF 135,10 inkl. MwSt
I is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a source of philosophical confusion. This book explains what this expression means. It shows the way to an understanding of how we express first-personal thinking.
I is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a constant source of philosophical confusion. Max de Gaynesford offers a remedy: he explains what this expression means, its logical form and its inferential role. He thereby shows the way to an understanding of how we express first-personal thinking. He dissolves various myths about how I refers, to the effect that it is a pure indexical. His central claim is that the key to understanding I is that it is the same kind of expression as the other singular personal pronouns, you and he/she: a deictic term, whose reference depends on making an individual salient. He addresses epistemological questions as well as semantic questions, and shows how they interrelate.
The book thus not only resolves a key issue in philosophy of language, but promises to be of great use to people working on problems in other areas of philosophy.

I. QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MEANING OF I ; II. THE MEANING OF I

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.4.2006
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 242 mm
Gewicht 462 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 0-19-928782-1 / 0199287821
ISBN-13 978-0-19-928782-6 / 9780199287826
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