Inessential Indexical - On Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective First Person

Zusatztext This is a brave and fascinating book in terms of how it takes on a longstanding and largely unchallenged tradition. The book succeeds in its stated aim to show that arguments put forward in favour of essential indexicality are often shallow and border on the rhetorical! and that the notion of perspectiveprobably has little philosophical mileage. Informationen zum Autor Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he works at the Arché Philosophical Research Centre. He works in philosophy of language, philosophical methodology and related areas of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is the author of many papers and four books: Insensitive Semantics (with Ernest Lepore; Blackwell, 2004), Language Turned on Itself (with Ernest Lepore; OUP, 2007), Relativism and Monadic Truth (with John Hawthorne; OUP, 2009), and Philosophy without Intuitions (OUP, 2012). ; Joshua Dever is Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley, and his primary research interests include philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Herman Cappelen, Herman (University of St Andrews) Cappelen, Herman (University of St Andrews) Dever Cappelen, Herman Dever Cappelen, Cappelen Herman, Josh Dever, Josh (University of Texas at Austin) Dever, Joshua Dever, Dever Josh
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2015
• EAN: 9780198748168
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874816-8
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Context & Content; Context & Content; Context and Content
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge