The First-Person Authority of Children
This is an open access book that addresses how we treat others and, in particular, infants and children, with first-person authority. We respond to people’s first-person authority when we give our interlocutor’s communication of their mental states more significance in establishing their thoughts, d...
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| description | This is an open access book that addresses how we treat others and, in particular, infants and children, with first-person authority. We respond to people’s first-person authority when we give our interlocutor’s communication of their mental states more significance in establishing their thoughts, desires, and feelings than if another person were to report those mental states for them. But what happens when our interlocutors are infants and children? Increasingly, practices of responsive childrearing ascribe first-person authority to very young children. Despite this tendency, philosophy seems to be one step behind. The accepted view is one in which first-person authority has its locus in linguistic expressions of one’s self-knowledge. This is an over-intellectualized conception, however, that consequently tends to exclude children. By combining philosophical resources with empirical findings about the onset of human communication, play, and our nature as social beings, this text advances a non-intellectualized, anti-individualist, and non-adult-centered view of first-person authority. This is a view that both accommodates our daily experiences and provides material for advancing the philosophical debate around the phenomenon in an enriched and more inclusive way. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1584752025-07-30T09:00:16Z The First-Person Authority of Children Borgoni, Cristina first-person authority self-knowledge and philosophy personhood and philosophy personhood of children onset of communication social play and philosophy epistemology and children philosophy of mind and children social cognition expression and self knowledge self interpretation first person knowledge second person knowledge third person knowledge implicit bias and philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind This is an open access book that addresses how we treat others and, in particular, infants and children, with first-person authority. We respond to people’s first-person authority when we give our interlocutor’s communication of their mental states more significance in establishing their thoughts, desires, and feelings than if another person were to report those mental states for them. But what happens when our interlocutors are infants and children? Increasingly, practices of responsive childrearing ascribe first-person authority to very young children. Despite this tendency, philosophy seems to be one step behind. The accepted view is one in which first-person authority has its locus in linguistic expressions of one’s self-knowledge. This is an over-intellectualized conception, however, that consequently tends to exclude children. By combining philosophical resources with empirical findings about the onset of human communication, play, and our nature as social beings, this text advances a non-intellectualized, anti-individualist, and non-adult-centered view of first-person authority. This is a view that both accommodates our daily experiences and provides material for advancing the philosophical debate around the phenomenon in an enriched and more inclusive way. 2025-04-15T04:36:34Z 2025-04-15T04:36:34Z 2025-04-14T12:59:10Z 2025 book ONIX_20250414_9783031839993_53 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100810 9783031839986 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/158475 eng SpringerBriefs in Philosophy open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100810/1/9783031839993.pdf Springer Nature Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-83999-3 10.1007/978-3-031-83999-3 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 5a80e42e-eade-414d-8d3f-813f47bb2c88 8d7c0cc8-535d-4279-9441-386cbcbedf75 9783031839986 Springer Nature Switzerland 57 Cham [...] Universität Bayreuth University of Bayreuth 10.13039/100020618 open access |
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| topic | first-person authority self-knowledge and philosophy personhood and philosophy personhood of children onset of communication social play and philosophy epistemology and children philosophy of mind and children social cognition expression and self knowledge self interpretation first person knowledge second person knowledge third person knowledge implicit bias and philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind |
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