The Second Person

The second person perspective is the perspective one has on a person when one is in a position to think of them as ‘you’, or ‘thou’ (as opposed to ‘he’ or ‘she’). There has been increasing recognition in recent years of the potential importance of understanding the nature of the second person perspective when explaining a variety of phenomena in ethics, philosophy of mind, and theories of thought and communication. The workshop aims to explore, and critically assess, attempts to shed philosophical light by appeal to the second person perspective.

Speakers include:
Lucy O’Brien (UCL)
John Campbell (Berkeley)
Richard Moran (Harvard)
Quassim Cassam (Warwick)
Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig)
Douglas Lavin (UCL)

Places at the workshop are limited. To request a place, or for further information, please contact Guy Longworth: [email protected]