The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person
Author:   Herman Cappelen (University of St Andrews) ,  Josh Dever (University of Texas at Austin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   14 November 2013
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Author:   Herman Cappelen (University of St Andrews) ,  Josh Dever (University of Texas at Austin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.90cm
Weight:   0.382kg
ISBN:  

9780199686742


ISBN 10:   0199686742
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   14 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Introductory Overview: The Role of Indexicality, Perspective and the De Se in Philosophy 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

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The authors do an excellent job in spelling out the content and ramifications of the essential indexicality thesis, and make a strong case for an unorthodox view of the role of indexicality--a view that future writings on the topic should certainly address. --Metapsychology


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Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he works at the Arché Philosophical Research Centre. He works in philosophy of language, philosophical methodology and related areas of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is the author of many papers and four books: Insensitive Semantics (with Ernest Lepore; Blackwell, 2004), Language Turned on Itself (with Ernest Lepore; OUP, 2007), Relativism and Monadic Truth (with John Hawthorne; OUP, 2009), and Philosophy without Intuitions (OUP, 2012). ; Josh Dever is Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley, and his primary research interests include philosophy of language and philosophical logic.

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