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Hermann Cappelen and Josh Dever, The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person

Oxford University Press, 2013. Xiii + 194 pages ISBN 978-0-19-968674-2

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  1. John Perry, “The Problem of the Essential Indexical” Nous 13.1 (March, 1979) 3–21; republished in his The Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays, expanded edition (CSLI, 2000).

  2. “Frege on Demonstratives” The Philosophical Review 86.4 (1977) 474–497; republished in his The Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays, expanded edition (CSLI, 2000).

  3. David Lewis, “Attitudes De Dicto and De Se” The Philosophical Review 88 (1979) 513–543; republished in his Philosophical Papers vol. 1 (Oxford, 1983).

  4. Gottlob Frege, “On Sense and Reference” in Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, P. Geach and M. Black, eds. (Basil Blackwell, 1960).

  5. See pp. 403f of David Kaplan, “On the Logic of Demonstratives” Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, P. French, T. Ueling, and H. Wettstein, eds. (University of Minnesota Press, 1979) 401–412.

  6. Roderick Chisholm, “The Indirect Reflexive” in C. Diamond and J. Teichmann, eds., Intention and Intentionality (Harvester, 1979); The First Person (University of Minnesota Press, 1981).

  7. For the proper ordering of self-ascriptions first, then a self-concept built from them, see Amita Chatterjee, “From Self-Ascription to Self-Knowledge”, Self-knowledge and Agency, ed. Manidipa Sen, (Decent Books, New Delhi, 2012) pp. 20–38.

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Falk, A. Hermann Cappelen and Josh Dever, The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person . J. Indian Counc. Philos. Res. 32, 425–430 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40961-015-0028-4

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