| Status | 已發表Published |
| The Phenomenological Words | |
Dolcini, N. 
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| 2011-08-01 | |
| Source Publication | Transcendentalism Overturned |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 663-674 |
| Abstract | In this paper I defend a phenomenological approach to consciousness by analyzing some relevant linguistic data. In particular, I focus on the referential mechanisms at work in the subjects’ proper usage of the indexical terms. I distinguish between two kinds of indexical reference: the self-reference displayed in the uses of the first-person pronoun “I”, and the egoless-reference at work in the uses of any other indexical term (“you”, “here”, “this”, “that”, etc.). The analyzed indexical data, I’ll argue, support a view that I call “Minimal Phenomenological Account of Consciousness”. This is a two-level theory of consciousness constituted by the egoless-consciousness, which is ubiquitous, implicit, and unreflective, and the egoic-consciousness of an ephemeral, reflective, and explicit nature. The presented indexical data account for a phenomenological approach to consciousness and lead to the following conclusions: self-reference is irreducible to egoless-reference; the characteristics of the egoless-consciousness are displayed in the egoless-referential mechanisms, and are always present in the subjects’ experience; the characteristics of the egoic-consciousness are displayed in the self-referential mechanisms alone. |
| Keyword | indexicals demonstratives consciousness |
| URL | View the original |
| Language | 英語English |
| ISBN | 9789400706231 |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 25886 |
| Document Type | Book chapter |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| Corresponding Author | Dolcini, N. |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Dolcini, N.. The Phenomenological Words[M]. Transcendentalism Overturned:Springer, 2011, 663-674. |
| APA | Dolcini, N..(2011). The Phenomenological Words. Transcendentalism Overturned, 663-674. |
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