A Point of View on Points of View

Author: Biro, John

Source: Philosophical Psychology, Volume 19, Number 1, Number 1/February 2006 , pp. 3-12(10)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

A number of writers have deployed the notion of a point of view as a key to the allegedly theory-resistant subjective aspect of experience. I examine that notion more closely than is usually done and find that it cannot support the anti-objectivist's case. Experience may indeed have an irreducibly subjective aspect, but the notion of a point of view cannot be used to show that it does.

Keywords: Consciousness; Experience; Objectivity; Point of view; Subjectivity

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515080500471835

Publication date: 2006-02-01

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