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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Re-reading Anscombe on ‘I’
Contributor:
Stainton, Robert J.
Published:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019
Published in:
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 49 (2019) 1, Seite 70-93
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1080/00455091.2018.1521695
ISSN:
0045-5091;
1911-0820
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractAccording to a ‘Straight’ reading of Elizabeth Anscombe’s (1975) ‘The First Person’, she holds a radically non-referring view of ‘I’. Specifically, ‘I’ is analogous to the expletive ‘it’ in ‘It’s raining’. I argue that this is not her conclusion. Her substantive view, rather is that if what you mean by ‘reference’ is a certain rich and recherché notion tracing to Frege, then ‘I’ is not a referring term. Her methodological point is that one shouldn’t be ‘bewitched by language’ into thinking that ‘I’, because of its syntax, must exhibit ‘reference’ in this sense.