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The Indexical Point of View

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This book argues that there is a common cognitive mechanism underlying all indexical thoughts, in spite of their seeming diversity. Indexical thoughts are mental representations, such as beliefs and desires. They represent items from a thinker's point of view or her cognitive perspective. We typically express them by means of sentences containing linguistic expressions such as 'this (F)' or 'that (F)', adverbs like 'here', 'now', and 'today', and the personal pronoun ‘I’. While generally agreeing that representing the world from a thinker's cognitive perspective is a key feature of indexical thoughts, philosophers disagree as to whether a thinker's cognitive perspective can be captured and rationalized by semantic content and, if so, what kind of content this is. This book surveys competing views and then advances its own positive account. Ultimately, it argues that a thinker's cognitive perspective - or her indexical point of view - is to be explained in terms of the content that is believed and asserted as the only kind of content that there is which thereby serves as the bearer of cognitive significance. The Indexical Point of View will be of interest to philosophers of mind and language, linguists, and cognitive scientists.

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ISBN: 9780367554804
Publication date: 23rd October 2020
Author: Vojislav Bozickovic
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 166 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Genres: Philosophy of language
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy: logic
Linguistics
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Cognition and cognitive psychology