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The Meaning of the First Person Term

By: Maximilian de Gaynesford

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Hardcover | 1 April 2006

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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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