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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783395703321

Autore

Corazza Eros

Titolo

Reflecting the mind [[electronic resource] ] : indexicality and quasi-indexicality / / Eros Corazza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-281-90666-2

9786611906665

0-19-153363-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Disciplina

420/.143

Soggetti

Indexicals (Semantics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-362) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Language and Context; Chapter 2: Thought and Context; Chapter 3: A Multiple-Proposition Approach; Chapter 4: Demonstratives, Pure Indexicals, and Essential Indexicals; Chapter 5: The First-Person Pronoun; Chapter 6: Perspectival Thoughts and Psychological Explanation; Chapter 7: Empathy, Imagination, and Reports; Chapter 8: Anaphora, Logophoricity, and Quasi-Indexicality; Chapter 9: Quasi-Indexicality and Puzzling Reports; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Eros Corazza presents a fascinating investigation of the role that indexicals (e.g. 'I', 'she', 'this', 'today', 'here') play in our thought. Indexicality is crucial to the understanding of such puzzling issues as the nature of the self, the nature of perception, social interaction, psychological pathologies, and psychological development. Corazza draws on work from philosophy, linguistics, and psychology to illuminate this key aspect of the relation between mind and world. By highlighting how indexical thoughts are irreducible and intrinsically perspectival, Corazza shows how we can depict so