Titel
Minimal Self, Mineness, and Intersubjectivity
Abstract
In our presentation, we investigate the commonalities between Wittgenstein’s account of sensation and recent accounts of the “minimal self” and its definition as “mineness” of experience. These recent accounts hold that “mineness” is characterized, (1) by a difference between the way I access my sensations as opposed to how others can access them and (2) by the experiential givenness of the self. We argue that Wittgenstein agrees with the first claim and that he holds that sensations are in a sense had by one person. Nevertheless, he implies that, if the determinate quality of a sensation conditions the meaning of a word in a language, that quality is intersubjective. With regard to the claim of experiential givenness, we argue that Wittgenstein would be unlikely to find a common kind of experience in all uses of the first-person pronoun, but that he may find resemblances between some uses.
Stichwort
Minimal selfWittgensteinConsciousnessIntersubjectivityFirst-person
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:866348
Enthalten in
Titel
Die Philosophie der Wahrnehmung und der Beobachtung = The Philosophy of Perception and Observation: Papers of the 40th Internationales Wittgenstein Symposium August 6–12, 2017
Seitenanfang
41
Seitenende
43
Verlag
Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society
Datum der Annahme zur Veröffentlichung
2017
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