9780199686742 - The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person (Context and Content) von Cappelen, Herman; Dever, Josh (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: as new. Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 208 pp. - When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it from a perspective. We say and think that the meeting is happening now, that it is hot here, that I am in danger and not you; that the tree looks larger from my perspective than from yours. The Inessential Indexical is an exploration and defense of the view that perspectivality is a philosophically shallow aspect of the world. Cappelen and Dever oppose one of the most entrenched and dominant trends in contemporary philosophy: that perspective (and the perspective of the first person in particular) is philosophically deep and that a proper understanding of it is important not just in the philosophies of language and mind, but throughout philosophy. They argue that there are no such things as essential indexicality, irreducibly de se attitudes, or self-locating attitudes. Their goal is not to show that we need to rethink these phenomena, to explain them in different ways. Their goal is to show that the entire topic is an illusion--there's nothing there. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780199686742. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY,

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Zustand: New. Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenomena in different ways, but to show that the entire topic is an illusion. Series: Context and Content. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK; HPM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.