Inthiscontribution,weaddresstheissuesconcerningthesemanticvalue 5 of Wittgenstein’s subject “I”, as in (i) “I have a toothache”, resulting from the use 6 of predicates that involve first-person knowledge of the mental states to which they 7 refer. As is well-known, these contexts give rise to the phenomenon of ‘immunity 8 to error through misidentification’ (IEM): the utterer of (i) cannot be mistaken as 9 to whether he is the person having a toothache. We provide a series of arguments 10 in favor of a principled distinction between a de facto IEM, grounded in perceptual 11 and proprioceptive judgments, and a de iure IEM, grounded in experience reports 12 whereby the experience wears the experiencer on its sleeve. From this perspective, 13 the no-referent account of subject “I” advocated by Wittgenstein/Anscombe is 14 correct.Infact,weshowhowthisanalysiscanbemadecompatiblewithaKaplanian 15 account of first-person indexicals, by identifying the speaker in the context of 16 utterance with the person who has access to the reported private experience

Immunity to Error through Misidentification and (Direct and Indirect) Experience Reports

Delfitto Denis
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2018-01-01

Abstract

Inthiscontribution,weaddresstheissuesconcerningthesemanticvalue 5 of Wittgenstein’s subject “I”, as in (i) “I have a toothache”, resulting from the use 6 of predicates that involve first-person knowledge of the mental states to which they 7 refer. As is well-known, these contexts give rise to the phenomenon of ‘immunity 8 to error through misidentification’ (IEM): the utterer of (i) cannot be mistaken as 9 to whether he is the person having a toothache. We provide a series of arguments 10 in favor of a principled distinction between a de facto IEM, grounded in perceptual 11 and proprioceptive judgments, and a de iure IEM, grounded in experience reports 12 whereby the experience wears the experiencer on its sleeve. From this perspective, 13 the no-referent account of subject “I” advocated by Wittgenstein/Anscombe is 14 correct.Infact,weshowhowthisanalysiscanbemadecompatiblewithaKaplanian 15 account of first-person indexicals, by identifying the speaker in the context of 16 utterance with the person who has access to the reported private experience
2018
978-3-319-78771-8
pronouns, de se, immunity to error
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