Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Cappelen, Herman

Publication

Oxford Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Dever, Josh

Description

xiii, 194 pages; 22 cm

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.

Series Statement

• Context and content

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Indexicals (Semantics)
• Perspective (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780199686742 (hardback) (canceled/invalid)
• 0199686742 (hardback) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

832606014

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library