The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Edited by Josh Dever (2013)
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Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenomena in different ways, but to show that the entire topic is an illusion

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Herman Cappelen
University of Hong Kong
Josh Dever
University of Texas at Austin

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