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

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
Series Statement
Context and content
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Perspective (Philosophy)
  • Indexicals (Semantics)
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
  • SCSB-11154268
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library