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. 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. The entire topic is an illusion--there's nothing there.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780198748168
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217354808
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216mm
Item Width
142mm
Item Weight
270g
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Title_Author
Josh Dever, Herman Cappelen
Book Title
The Inessential Indexical: ON the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the FIRST Person
