Salje, L (2019) The Essential Non-Indexical. Philosophers' Imprint, 19 (20). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1533-628X
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to argue that our non-first-personal ways of thinking of ourselves – those we would naturally express in language without using first person pronouns – are just as important to our agency as our indexical ways of thinking of ourselves. They are just important in different ways. Specifically, I argue that a thinker who is systematically excluded from these non-first-personal modes of self-directed thought would be excluded from participation in some of the domains of agency we value most as part of a full human life: the domains of agency associated with our social identities.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019, Léa Salje. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
Keywords: | indexical thought; immunity to error through misidentification |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2019 12:02 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2019 03:37 |
Published Version: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0019.020 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Michigan |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143637 |