Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

I will start by pointing out some special features of the use of the first-person singular pronoun and confine myself to considerations about self-ascriptions of de se – propositional attitudes. Their logical form makes room to compare them with the ascriptions of two kinds of non de se – attitudes, which, in turn, leads to the distinction between the first-person and the third-person point of view. This distinction will be explored by an analysis of different ways of being concerned with one’s own future. Attitudes from the first-person point of view are de se – attitudes, but the converse is not true. By focussing on this special class of de se – attitudes one goes beyond the mainstream account of such attitudes, as it can be found in the writings of Perry, and paves the way of considering we – attitudes.