Agency and First-Person Reference

In Part I of Self-Knowing Agents, Lucy O’Brien develops a theory of first-person reference. In what follows, I describe this account and then raise doubts about its success. Since I am not confident that I have understood her properly, I may be setting up and targeting a strawwoman, but I can only...

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Main Author: Tomis Kapitan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 2018-12-01
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Online Access:https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/768
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description In Part I of Self-Knowing Agents, Lucy O’Brien develops a theory of first-person reference. In what follows, I describe this account and then raise doubts about its success. Since I am not confident that I have understood her properly, I may be setting up and targeting a strawwoman, but I can only hope that what I said about the first-person will be of interest in its own right.
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spelling doaj-art-71c0b48c72dd43bd9c55b05d5b91f52e2025-08-20T03:42:40ZengUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Crítica0011-15031870-49052018-12-014413110.22201/iifs.18704905e.2012.768Agency and First-Person ReferenceTomis Kapitan In Part I of Self-Knowing Agents, Lucy O’Brien develops a theory of first-person reference. In what follows, I describe this account and then raise doubts about its success. Since I am not confident that I have understood her properly, I may be setting up and targeting a strawwoman, but I can only hope that what I said about the first-person will be of interest in its own right. https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/768identificationindexicalintentiondeliberationself-consciousness
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Agency and First-Person Reference
Crítica
identification
indexical
intention
deliberation
self-consciousness
title Agency and First-Person Reference
title_full Agency and First-Person Reference
title_fullStr Agency and First-Person Reference
title_full_unstemmed Agency and First-Person Reference
title_short Agency and First-Person Reference
title_sort agency and first person reference
topic identification
indexical
intention
deliberation
self-consciousness
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