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(1997) Austrian philosophy past and present, Dordrecht, Kluwer.

Thinking and talking about oneself

Johannes L Brandl

pp. 177-187

Current debates about self-knowledge often take as their starting point questions about the first-person pronoun.1 What do I refer to by the pronoun "I", if I refer to anything by this term, and what propositions do I express by sentences of the form "I am such-and-such', if fliese sentences express propositions at all? These questions replace the more traditional questions about self-directed thinking: What is it that I think about when I think about myself, and what is the content of my thoughts when they concern myself?

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5720-9_12

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Brandl, J.L. (1997)., Thinking and talking about oneself, in K. Lehrer & J. C. Marek (eds.), Austrian philosophy past and present, Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp. 177-187.

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