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The Indexical ‘I’

The First Person in Thought and Language

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Ingar Brinck

    1. Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 265)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ingar Brinck
    Pages 1-10

  3. ‘I’ Does Not Refer

    • Ingar Brinck
    Pages 11-44

  4. ‘I’ Refers Directly

    • Ingar Brinck
    Pages 45-89

  5. ‘I’ Refers Indirectly

    • Ingar Brinck
    Pages 90-121

  6. Indexicality and Non-Conceptual Content

    • Ingar Brinck
    Pages 122-146

  7. Context-Independence

    • Ingar Brinck
    Pages 147-173

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 175-179
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About this book

The subject of this book is the first person in thought and language. The main question concerns what we mean when we say 'J'. Related to it are questions about what kinds of self-consciousness and self-knowledge are needed in order for us to have the capacity to talk about ourselves. The emphasis is on theories of meaning and reference for 'J', but a fair amount of space is devoted to 'I' -thoughts and the role of the concept of the self in cognition. The purpose is to give a picture of how we think and talk about ourselves in a wide range of circumstances. The topic has been discussed in numerous articles during the last decades, but rarely in the form of a monograph. I felt the need for a book of this kind while working on my dissertation. The manuscript is the result of many years of reflection on the self and indexicals. Some of the theories that I advance have developed as a result of my teaching an undergraduate course in the philosophy of language the last couple of years.



   

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Ingar Brinck

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Indexical ‘I’

  • Book Subtitle: The First Person in Thought and Language

  • Authors: Ingar Brinck

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8871-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4741-5Published: 31 August 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4908-7Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8871-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 179

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Ontology, Epistemology

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