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ISBN 10: 0192516015 

ISBN 13: 9780192516015

Author:  José Luis Bermúdez 

No words in English are shorter than “I” and few, if any, play a more fundamental role in language and thought. In Understanding “I”: Thought and Language José Luis Bermúdez continues his longstanding work on the self and self-consciousness. Bermúdez develops a model of how language-users understand sentences involving the first person pronoun “I”. This model illuminates the unique psychological role that self-conscious thoughts (typically expressed using “I”) play in action and thought – a unique role often summarized by describing “I” as an essential indexical. The book opens with an argument directly supporting the indispensability of “I”-thoughts in explaining action. After motivating a broadly Fregean approach linguistic understanding it critically examines Frege’s own remarks on “I” as well as the Fregean account offered by Gareth Evans. The main part of the book develops an account of the sense of “I” that explains a cluster of related phenomena, including essential indexicality, immunity to error through misidentification, the shareability of “I”-thoughts, the relation between “I” and “you”, and the role of autobiographical memory in self-consciousness.

Understanding I : language and thought 1st table of contents: 

1. “I”: An Essential Indexical
1.1. Language, Thought, and Expressibility
1.2. “I” in Language and Thought
1.3. The Ineliminability of “I”
1.4. Summary
2. Sense and Understanding
2.1. The Standard Contrast: Frege vs. Russell
2.2. Why Do We Need a Notion of Sense?
2.3. Sense, Truth-Conditions, and Understanding
2.4. Understanding Names
2.5. Summary
3. Frege and Evans on the Sense of “I”
3.1. Indexicals and Fregean Thoughts: Challenges and Opportunities
3.2. Evans on the Sense of “I”
3.3. Summary
4. Privacy, Objectivity, Symmetry
4.1. Privacy and Objectivity
4.2. Privacy and Symmetry
4.3. Summary
5. Token-Sense and Type-Sense
5.1. Motivating the Distinction between Token-Sense and Type-Sense
5.2. Comparisons
5.3. Summary
6. “I”: Token-Sense and Type-Sense
6.1. The Token-Sense of “I”
6.2. Meeting the Five Constraints
6.3. The Type-Sense of “I” and Levels of Understanding
6.4. Summary
7. Explaining Immunity to Error through Misidentification
7.1. Accounting for Immunity to Error through Misidentification: A General Strategy
7.2. Autobiographical Memory and the IEM Property: An Analysis
7.3. Understanding the IEM Status of Past-Tense Judgments
7.4. Summary

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