First-person thought and the use of "I"

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc

pp. 145-156

in: Synthese 163 (2), 2008.

Abstract

The traditional account (TA) of first-person thought draws conclusions about this type of thinking from claims made about the first-person pronoun. In this paper I raise a worry for the traditional account. Certain uses of ‘I’ conflict with its conception of the linguistic data. I argue that once the data is analysed correctly, the traditional approach to first-person thought cannot be maintained.