{"id":148,"date":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/2015\/06\/26\/review-of-cappelendevers-the-inessential-indexical-in-latest-issue-of-mind\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:13:02","slug":"review-of-cappelendevers-the-inessential-indexical-in-latest-issue-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/review-of-cappelendevers-the-inessential-indexical-in-latest-issue-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Cappelen&#038;Dever\u2019s The Inessential Indexical in latest issue of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a summary of the review:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is a brave and fascinating book in terms of how it takes on a long-standing and largely unchallenged tradition. The book succeeds in its stated aim to show that arguments put forward in favour of essential indexicality are often shallow, border on the rhetorical, and that the notion of \u201cperspective\u201d probably has little philosophical mileage . . . a positive synthetic vision [is] beautifully articulated in the final chapter . . . according to which \u201call information is objective information and is used indifferently as such\u201d: our \u201cview of the world is not primarily a view from a perspective\u201d ; \u201cour beliefs and desires are \u2018organized around the world\u2019 rather than \u2018around us\u2019\u2026\u201d.\u2019 (by W. Hinzen)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/graphic\/mind.gif\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a summary of the review: \u2018This is a brave and fascinating book in terms of how it takes on a long-standing and largely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}