A relatively new paper of mine, “De Se Pluralism” has been accepted for publication at Inquiry. Here’s the abstract:
According to philosophical orthodoxy, we each possess exactly one distinctively first-personal concept of ourselves. Call this view de se monism. According to a little explored alternative to the orthodoxy, we each possess more than one distinctively first-personal concepts. Call this view de se pluralism. In this paper, I clarify what is at issue between de se monism and de se pluralism, show why de se monism is so widely assumed without argument, and then make the case for de se pluralism as an alternative to monism. I first offer an informal argument for pluralism before showing how pluralism can be developed within a formal framework for thinking about the content of de se thought.