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<p>This is a study of an under-developed topic in philosophy of language, namely first-person plural pronouns (‘we’, ‘us’, etc.) Richard Vallée has made very important progress by identifying crucial desiderata and putting forward an ingenious proposal about ‘we’ which addresses them. We contend that, despite this impressive progress, he makes some missteps, both omissions and errors; furthermore, his proposal appears implausible as a personal-level psychological story. We thus sketch an alternative approach to the semantics of the first-person plural indexical which, though it builds on Vallée’s important work, departs substantially from it.</p>
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This is a study of an under-developed topic in philosophy of language, namely first-person plural pronouns (‘we’, ‘us’, etc.) Richard Vallée has made very important progress by identifying crucial desiderata and putting forward an ingenious proposal about ‘we’ which addresses them. We contend that, despite this impressive progress, he makes some missteps, both omissions and errors; furthermore, his proposal appears implausible as a personal-level psychological story. We thus sketch an alternative approach to the semantics of the first-person plural indexical which, though it builds on Vallée’s important work, departs substantially from it.

First-Person Plural Indexicals

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This is a study of an under-developed topic in philosophy of language, namely first-person plural pronouns (‘we’, ‘us’, etc.) Richard Vallée has made very...

First-Person Plural Indexicals

Publicado en línea: 15 feb 2023

Páginas: 271 - 304

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2022-0014

Palabras clave
first-person, plural pronouns, pronouns, Richard Vallée, ‘we’

© 2022 Robert J. Stainton et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

First-Person Plural Indexicals

Publicado en línea: 15 feb 2023

Páginas: 271 - 304

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2022-0014

Palabras clavefirst-person, plural pronouns, pronouns, Richard Vallée, ‘we’

© 2022 Robert J. Stainton et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
first-person, plural pronouns, pronouns, Richard Vallée, ‘we’