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Title About oneself : de se thought and communication / edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Stephan Torre
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Contents De se thought and communication: an introduction / Stephan Torre. Part 1 Foundational issues in de se thought : Immunity to error through misidentification and the epistemology of de se thought / Aidan McGlynn -- Constancy in variation: an argument for centering the contents of experience? / Kathrin Glüer -- What is the problem of de se attitudes? / Dilip Ninan -- Modeling a perspective on the world / Robert Stalnaker. Part 2 De se thought and communication : Indexical thought: the communication problem / François Recanati -- Token-reflexive presuppositions and the de se / Manuel García-Carpintero -- Speaking about oneself / Isidora Stojanovic -- Why my I is your you: on the communication of de se attitudes / Emar Maier -- Being at the centre: self-location in thought and language / Clas Weber -- De se communication: centered or uncentered? / Peter Pagin -- Varieties of centering and de se communication / Dirk Kindermann
Summary This volume addresses the nature of first-personal, or de se, thought. Many have held that first-person thought motivates a revision of traditional accounts of content and how it is accessed, but this raises puzzling questions about how we are able to communicate such thoughts. It is these questions that are answered here
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 3, 2015)
Subject Self (Philosophy)
Communication -- Philosophy
Thought and thinking.
Thinking
thinking.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Communication -- Philosophy
Self (Philosophy)
Thought and thinking
Form Electronic book
Author García-Carpintero, Manuel, editor.
Torre, Stephan (Lecturer in philosophy), editor
ISBN 9780191022234
0191022233
9780191781711
0191781711