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The Inessential Indexical - On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person (Paperback)
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The Inessential Indexical - On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person (Paperback)
Series: Context & Content
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When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in
perception, we often represent it from a perspective. We say and
think that the meeting is happening now, that it is hot here, that
I am in danger and not you; that the tree looks larger from my
perspective than from yours. The Inessential Indexical is an
exploration and defense of the view that perspectivality is a
philosophically shallow aspect of the world. Cappelen and Dever
oppose one of the most entrenched and dominant trends in
contemporary philosophy: that perspective (and the perspective of
the first person in particular) is philosophically deep and that a
proper understanding of it is important not just in the
philosophies of language and mind, but throughout philosophy. They
argue that there are no such things as essential indexicality,
irreducibly de se attitudes, or self-locating attitudes. Their goal
is not to show that we need to rethink these phenomena, to explain
them in different ways. Their goal is to show that the entire topic
is an illusion-there's nothing there. The Context and Content
series is a forum for outstanding original research at the
intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science. The
general editor is Francois Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris).
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