ABSTRACT
De se relativism claims that thought and talk about subjective matters such as personal taste or epistemic modality is best understood as a kind of de se, or first-personal, thought and talk. It says that claims about what’s tasty, or what’s epistemically possible, can take different truth values relative to different assessors, because such claims express de se contents that can be true of some assessors and false of others. This chapter presents the main motivations for de se relativism, its account of mental and linguistic content in terms of de se, centered-worlds propositions, the role of de se propositions in communication, and the view’s similarities and differences with respect to a variety of other forms of contemporary relativisms.
