A Not-so-Simple Rule for ‘I’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10344391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tadeusz Ciecierski (0000-0001-5403-9590, University of Warsaw), Jakub Rudnicki (0000-0003-0222-9370, University of Warsaw) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1100-1119 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqad025 |
| OpenAlex | W4361195308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Maximilian de Gaynesford has argued against the standard view that the reference of the first-person pronoun ‘I’ is determined by a rule linking the referent to some feature of the context of use. In this paper, we argue that de Gaynesford's arguments are inconclusive. Our main aim, however, is to formulate a novel version of the reference rule for ‘I’. We argue that this version can deal with several problematic cases. Our strategy involves analysing the so-called agent of the context as the person responsible for a particular speech act. From this analysis, we exclude a particular class of uses of ‘I’, uses that we believe are best understood as demonstrative
Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Demonstrative · Epistemology · Feature (linguistics · Linguistics · Pronoun · Referent · Simple (philosophy · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Free Will and Agency · History · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |