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Thinking About You| old_uid | 15051 |
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| title | Thinking About You |
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| start_date | 2015/02/05 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle Paul Langevin |
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| summary | `The word ‘you’’, according to Richard Heck, ‘has no correlate at the level of thought’ (p.12). This claim is somewhat startling on first encounter; typically we treat our ways of talking about things as tracking our ways of thinking of them. Why should the second person be any different? His suggested line of reasoning, however, is remarkably persuasive: second person language is bound up with the notion of addressing, a purely linguistic phenomenon. It is, as Michael Thompson puts it, something that happens ‘in the noise, in the outward show of things’, and not ‘in the secret depths of the soul’. There could be no counterpart to this in the private domain of thought – at least, not for the non-telepathic creatures that we are.
In one form or another, the view that there is no such thing as distinctively second person thought has enjoyed a recent wave of support from such writers as Heck, Christopher Peacocke, Guy Longworth, Sebastian Rödl and José Louis Bermudez. In light of the above and other objections, this paper sets out to defend a non-reductive account of second person thought. |
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| responsibles | Ueda |
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