Attitudes De Se: Linguistics, Epistemology, Metaphysics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781575866642)

In English, we use the word "I" to express thoughts that we have about ourselves, and we use the reflexive pronouns "himself" and "herself" to attribute such thoughts to others. Philosophers and linguists call such thoughts, and the statements we use to express them, de se. De se thoughts and statements, although they appear often in our day-to-day lives, pose a series of challenging problems for both linguists and philosophers. This interdisciplinary volume examines the structure of de se thought, various issues concerning the semantics and pragmatics of our discourse about it, and also what it reveals about how humans think about themselves and the world around them. Contributors are: Darren BradleyAlessandro CaponeEros CorazzaWayne A. DavisDenis DelfittoMichael DevittIgor DouvenNeil FeitGaetano FiorinJames HigginbothamYan HuangKasia M. JaszczoltMichael NelsonPietro PercontiJohn PerryMichael G. Titelbaum

Author: Neil Feit
ISBN-10: 1575866641
ISBN-13: 9781575866642
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2013
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d