E-grāmata: Expressive Self: The First Person in Speech and Thought

In this exciting new book, Įngel Garcķa Rodrķguez argues that there is something irreducibly first-personal about what it is to be oneself, something which no third-person account can provide. Rodrķguez demonstrates with impressive prowess that the key to this uniqueness of the first-person perspective resides in the notion of expression. Offering novel approaches to both Moores paradox and McKinseys paradox along the way, The Expressive Self work is essential reading for anybody interested in the nature of the self. -- Constantine Sandis, Director of Lex Academic and Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire The Expressive Self offers an ingenious defense of the view that what makes the first-person perspective important is not an epistemic but a practical capacity, the capacity to express how things are with oneself. Utilizing an insightful distinction between descriptive and expressive claims about oneself, Garcķa Rodrķguez is able to provide ground-breaking solutions to Moores paradox, McKinseys paradox, and the puzzle of self-deception. Comprehensive and coherent, this marvelous bookrich with insightwill be immensely valuable to researchers on self-consciousness, and will surely be regarded as a must-read contribution to the philosophy of mind in years to come. -- Jordi Fernįndez, University of Adelaide