The Sense of Self
Subtitle: Topics in the Semantics of De Se Expressions
Contributors: Chierchia, Gennaro; Deal, Amy Rose; Heim, Irene; Polinsky, Maria
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: This work investigates a series of phenomena that shed light on the analysis of attitudes de se. We adopt Lewis' (1979) proposal that attitudes de se involve self-ascription of a property, and investigate how this view of mental content is reflected in natural language. The implementation favored is a strong version of Lewis' position: root and embedded clauses are uniformly treated as being of property type.
Notes: Keywords: Attitudes de se, Control, Formal semantics, Logophoricity, Predicates of personal taste, Relativism.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012