The Myth of the Problematic De Se
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There is a lot that we don’t know about the metaphysics of thoughts (propositional attitudes) and about the semantics of their ascriptions. But the received view is that there is something particularly problematic about first person thoughts, commonly known as ‘de se’. These are thoughts we express in a special way, using first-person pronouns; thus, I now have a de se thought that I might express, ‘I am in New York’. Furthermore, the received view is that there is something particularly problematic about the ascription of de se thoughts. These are ascriptions we often make in a special way, using a reflexive pronoun; thus, someone might ascribe that de se thought to me, ‘You believe that you yourself are in New York’. I think that the received view is a myth, an artifact of misguided philosophical approaches to the mind and semantics. I have implied this before (1981a, 1984, 1990, 1996), to sadly little effect. The myth lives on, as many papers in this volume, indeed the very conception of this volume, attest. I shall take this opportunity to deflate the myth a bit differently and more pointedly.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011