title: The first-person perspective description error in naturalism
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metadata.value: Gasparyan, Diana E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-01T20:00:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-01T20:00:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Gasparyan D. E. The first-person perspective description error in naturalism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 3, pp. 403–415.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33387
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In this article, it is shown that in some theories defending the non-reductive nature of the firstperson
  perspective it is possible to find a very inconsistent attitude. Such theories are associated
  by the author to a so-called moderate naturalism. The article demonstrates the difference
  between moderate and radical naturalism. Radical naturalism completely abandons the idea
  of subjectivity as unobservable from a third-person perspective. On the contrary, moderate
  naturalism defends the irreducibility of subjectivity, but believes subjectivity to be a part of the
  nature. As a case of moderate naturalism, the article considers the approaches of Lynne Baker
  and Thomas Metzinger. Exemplifying these approaches to the first-person perspective, it is
  shown that in the case of certain work strategies focused on the first-person perspective, it is
  possible that a so-called description error may appear, by which a description error of subjectivity
  — when it is placed in the world as a part of nature, existing according to its laws — is
  understood. The logic of this error points to one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s statements about
  the incorrect placement of the eye in the perspective of the eye view itself. If the first-person
  perspective is introduced as a point of view (or a point of observation), then its subsequent
  shift to the observation result area leads to description error. If there is no observation, as well
  as no viewpoint, we lose the very idea of first-person perspective and actually take the position
  of radical naturalism.
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metadata.value: The results of the project “Artificial Intelligence and ‘Homo Sapiens’ as an Object of Philosophico-
  Ethical Analysis”, carried out within the framework of the Basic Research Program at the National Research
  University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) in 2021, are presented in this work.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: first-person perspective
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subjectivity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lynne Baker
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Thomas Metzinger
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ludwig Wittgenstein
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: naturalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: moderate naturalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: radical naturalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The first-person perspective description error in naturalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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