ABSTRACT
One of the most influential ideas on subjectivity from the analytic tradition comes from Hector-Neri Castaneda and John Perry. The idea is that first-person pronouns are sometimes used in an important and distinctive way to play the role of the first-person "essential indexical". A second important idea about subjectivity occurs in both the analytic and the continental traditions. Phenomenal subjectivity, thus construed as a form of non-representational self-presence in phenomenal consciousness, is essentially the same feature that in the continental tradition is sometimes called "pre-reflective self-consciousness" or "pre-reflective self-awareness". A third significant idea, concerning certain perspectival aspects of conscious experience, is what Husserl called the experiential zero point. Along the way the chapter have things to say about how John Perry think these two kinds of inquiry are related to one another, and about other aspects of the two-pronged methodology.
