Marie Guillot
I am a final-year PhD student at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Institut Jean Nicod (IJN) in Paris, France, and a visiting fellow at Harvard for the 2007-2008 academic year.
My doctoral research bears on the first person in language and in thought. I am trying to compare and assess various ways of adapting linguistic theories accounting for the phenomenon of speaker-relativity in 'de se' utterances to the realm of the mental, in view of providing an explanation of distinctive epistemic features of (a certain class of) egocentric thoughts, such as their immunity to error through misidentification, their apparent groundlessness, their transparency, or at least the privileged access that the subject has to their content when she grasps it in the normal introspective way, etc.
For more information, please view my page on the IJN's site:
http://www.institutnicod.org/notices.php?user=Guillot