ABSTRACT

Are there distinctively second-personal thoughts? One way of beginning to address that question is by reflecting on connexions between the meaning of the second-person pronoun and the thoughts it can be used to express. Pursuing the question in that way raises more specific questions about the relations in which those thoughts stand to firstperson thoughts, and about whether first-person thoughts can be shared. I will present a view on which some second-person thoughts are distinctive in being other-directed firstperson thoughts.