Understanding &quote;I&quote; (eBook)

Language and Thought

Jose Luis Bermudez (Autor)

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2017
192 Seiten
OUP Oxford (Verlag)
978-0-19-251600-8 (ISBN)

Infos

No words in English are shorter than "e;I"e; and few, if any, play a more fundamental role in language and thought. In Understanding "e;I"e;: Thought and Language Jose Luis Bermudez continues his longstanding work on the self and self-consciousness. Bermudez develops a model of how language-users understand sentences involving the first person pronoun "e;I"e;. This model illuminates the unique psychological role that self-conscious thoughts (typically expressed using "e;I"e;) play in action and thought - a unique role often summarized by describing "e;I"e; as an essential indexical. The book opens with an argument directly supporting the indispensability of "e;I"e;-thoughts in explaining action. After motivating a broadly Fregean approach linguistic understanding it critically examines Frege's own remarks on "e;I"e; as well as the Fregean account offered by Gareth Evans. The main part of the book develops an account of the sense of "e;I"e; that explains a cluster of related phenomena, including essential indexicality, immunity to error through misidentification, the shareability of "e;I"e;-thoughts, the relation between "e;I"e; and "e;you"e;, and the role of autobiographical memory in self-consciousness.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 0-19-251600-0 / 0192516000
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-251600-8 / 9780192516008