concept: subjectivity-heterosubjectivity-intersubjectivity

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Definition

Human cognition operates across three irreducible standpoints:

• subjectivity (first-person acquaintance),
• intersubjectivity (shared linguistic and proto-linguistic articulation), and
• heterosubjectivity (third-personal attribution of mentality to others).

OR

Subjectivity is presuppositional, preconditional first person inaccessible from the outside; intersubjectivity is the domain of shared, publicly articulable structures; and heterosubjectivity is the third-personal attribution of subjectivity to others. Much of philosophy of mind can be understood as negotiating the tensions among these three.

Compare to Bertrand Russell categorization of epistemolog in _The Problems of Philosophy_. Knowledge by acquaintance is grounded in subjectivity. Knowledge by description is grounded in intersubjectivity. We could elaborate on Russell's humanistic turn in his later career and say that knowledge by sympathy is grounded in heterosubjectivity.

For Frege there are multiple meanings, Concept is subjective. Sense is intersubjective. Referent is objective, but that can be by name or by description.

!Modern philosophy as syntax versus experience (Bonevac)#^1dc4e3

Broader

device

Narrower

• subjectivity
• heterosubjectivity
• intersubjectivity

Related

• Nagel: what is it like to be a bat
• Chalmers: the "hard problem" of consciousness