@article{Wallage2023,
  author    = {Wallage, Martijn},
  title     = {Dotting the "I think"},
  series = {Reading R{\"o}dl : On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity},
  journal   = {Reading R{\"o}dl : On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Milton},
  isbn      = {978-1-03-234951-0},
  doi       = {/10.4324/9781003324638},
  pages     = {316 -- 333},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {This chapter discusses a central problem in Sebastian R{\"o}dl's Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. In a statement of the form "I think p", the words "I think" do not contribute to the content, and yet they are not redundant. In other words, a thinking subject is not something and yet not nothing. But then in what sense is a thinking subject a part of the world? The problem is intractable on a merely negative understanding of "I think", like Anscombe's merely negative thesis, endorsed by R{\"o}dl, that "I" is not a referring expression. In search of a positive understanding, this chapter proposes to understand "I think" by comparison to "hello". A speaking subject is the expression of mutual presence in conversation - in that sense a limit of the world. Such expression may be compared to facial expression, with the crucial difference that a verbal expression can be taken up - i.e., repeated - in the third person. A speaking subject, then, is potentially absent from conversation, and in that sense a part of the world.},
  language  = {en}
}