TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borgoni,Cristina
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The First-Person Authority of Children
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
SN  - 9783031839993
AV  - BD143-237 
U1  - 120 23
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Developmental psychology
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Developmental Psychology
KW  - Philosophy of Mind
N1  - Persons -- First Person Authority -- Authoritative Playful Minds -- Concluding Remarks; Open Access
N2  - This is an open-access book that examines how we respond to first-person authority, particularly that of infants and children. We respond to people’s first-person authority when we give our interlocutor’s communication of their mental states more significance in establishing their thoughts, desires, and feelings than if another person were to report those mental states for them. But what happens when our interlocutors are infants and children? Increasingly, practices of responsive childrearing ascribe first-person authority to very young children. Despite this tendency, philosophy seems to be one step behind. The accepted view is one in which first-person authority has its locus in linguistic expressions of one’s self-knowledge. This is an over-intellectualized conception, however, that consequently tends to exclude children. By combining philosophical resources with empirical findings about the onset of human communication, play, and our nature as social beings, this text advances a non-intellectualized, anti-individualist, and non-adult-centered view of first-person authority. This is a view that both accommodates our daily experiences and provides material for advancing the philosophical debate around the phenomenon in an enriched and more inclusive way
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83999-3
ER  -