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First-Person Thought| old_uid | 13327 |
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| title | First-Person Thought |
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| start_date | 2014/01/27 |
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| schedule | 16h-18h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | First person thoughts are the kind of thoughts we express by using the first person. This characterization does not take us very far, however. When we attempt to characterize the (linguistic) first person, we appeal to the token-reflexive rule : the fact that we use the first person to refer to ourselves. But to follow the token-reflexive rule, we need to think of ourselves as ourselves. The capacity to use the first person in language presupposes the capacity to think first person thoughts.
I will offer a characterization of first person thoughts independent of their linguistic expression. The account will be couched in the mental file framework (Recanati 2012a). In the second part of the talk, I will discuss the issue of immunity to error through misidentification, and the account I offered using the mode/content distinction (Recanati 2007, 2012b). I will show how that account can be maintained, and elaborated, in the mental file framework. |
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| responsibles | Kriegel |
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