Attitudes De Se

Neil Feit

ISBN 10: 1575866641 / ISBN 13: 9781575866642

Published by Centre for the Study of Language and Information, US, 2013

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De se statements are emphatic assertions in which speakers make fundamental claims about either themselves or others. In English, they are usually conveyed via "I" statements or third person reflexive pronouns, such as "she herself," or "he himself." De se attitudes appear often in our day-to-day lives, but they also pose a series of challenging problems for both linguists and philosophers. This interdisciplinary volume teases out what de se attitudes connote linguistically and also what these statements reveal about how humans think about themselves and how they understand the world around them.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Attitudes De Se
• Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language and Information, US
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575866641
• ISBN 13: 9781575866642
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 567 grams

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Synopsis

In English, we use the word "I" to express thoughts that we have about ourselves, and we use the reflexive pronouns "himself" and "herself" to attribute such thoughts to others. Philosophers and linguists call such thoughts, and the statements we use to express them, de se.  

 

De se thoughts and statements, although they appear often in our day-to-day lives, pose a series of challenging problems for both linguists and philosophers. This interdisciplinary volume examines the structure of de se thought, various issues concerning the semantics and pragmatics of our discourse about it, and also what it reveals about how humans think about themselves and the world around them.

 

Contributors are:

Darren Bradley

Alessandro Capone

Eros Corazza

Wayne A. Davis

Denis Delfitto

Michael Devitt

Igor Douven

Neil Feit

Gaetano Fiorin

James Higginbotham

Yan Huang

Kasia M. Jaszczolt

Michael Nelson

Pietro Perconti

John Perry

Michael G. Titelbaum

About the Authors

Neil Feit is chair of the Department of Philosophy at SUNY Fredonia and the author of Belief about the Self: A Defense of the Property Theory of Content.  

Alessandro Capone teaches semantics at the University of Palermo.