Being Origins: The way we think about ourselves

Dissertation, Universität Freiburg (2018)
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De se thinking has several characteristic features which aren’t present in all instances of thinking about yourself but are at least potentially realised. As such, any feasible account needs to explain the potential for these features. Neither the two-dimensional accounts—stemming from the idea that mental states can be characterised using the notion of a proposition—nor the property theory—claiming that we self-ascribe a property in thinking—do full justice to the phenomenon at hand. Instead, we have to take the concept of primitive self-ascription as the basis for all de se thinking. Primitive self-ascription, in turn, is ascription of a property to the lived body. The lived body is constituted through a subject’s assumed possibilities of interaction with the world. Therefore, only subjects as lived bodies are capable of thinking about themselves in the de se way. This is what’s required to grasp that you’re thinking about yourself.

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Florian Wüstholz
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