I: The Meaning of the First Person Term
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 March 2006
- ISBN 9780199287826
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages212 pages
- Size 242x162x17 mm
- Weight 462 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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. He thereby shows the way to an understanding of how we express first-personal thinking. 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
The book is written in a cool and clear style, and is packed with subtle, forceful and ingenious arguments...an original, well-argued and thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of the first-person pronoun as well as to other central issues in the philosophy of language.
Table of Contents:
I. Questions about the Meaning of I
Historical Background
Questions of Reference
Questions of Expression
Questions of Logic
Interim Conclusion
II. The Meaning of I
Logical Character
Inferential Role
Referential Function (I)
Referential Function (II)
Expressive Use
Communicative Role
Conclusion
Appendix I: Analytic Table of Contents
Appendix II: Recurrent Terms of Art
