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I is perhaps the most important and the least understood of our everyday expressions. This is a constant source of philosophical confusion. Max de Gaynesford offers a remedy: he explains what this expression means, its logical form and its inferential role. He thereby shows the way to an understanding of how we express first-personal thinking. He dissolves various myths about how I refers, to the effect that it is a pure indexical. His central claim is that the key to understanding I is that it is the same kind of expression as the other singular personal pronouns, you and he/she: a deictic term, whose reference depends on making an individual salient. He addresses epistemological questions as well as semantic questions, and shows how they interrelate.
The book thus not only resolves a key issue in philosophy of language, but promises to be of great use to people working on problems in other areas of philosophy.
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The book is written in a cool and clear style, and is packed with subtle, forceful and ingenious arguments...an original, well-argued and thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of the first-person pronoun as well as to other central issues in the philosophy of language. (Maria Alvarez, The Philosophical Quarterly)
[this] elegant little book... a timely and engaging intervention in the current debate about how to understand this difficult pronoun... carefully and powerfully argued (Stephen Williams, TLS)
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0199287821
- ISBN 13 9780199287826
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages212
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